Fortune hires eight for soon-to-be-relaunched website
Fortune managing editor Andy Serwer sent out the following staff hire announcement on Tuesday: The Fortune.com staff is growing bigger! We are pleased to announce a number of important new editorial hires — writers and editors in London, San Francisco, and New York. We are getting closer to being fully staffed for our upcoming launch of the […]
Biz magazines underperform industry in first quarter
The 14 business magazines underperformed the rest of the magazine industry in the first quarter, according to data from Publishers Information Bureau. Combined, the business titles reported a 2.95 decrease in advertising revenue to $245.4 million and a 5.9 percent drop in advertising pages to 2,289.43. That compares to a 1.6 percent decrease in ad […]
NYSSCPA names financial journalism award winners
The New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants announced the winners of its 2014 Excellence in Financial Journalism Awards. The nationwide contest — the 31st annual this year — recognizes reporters from the national and local press whose work was published, posted or broadcast in 2013 and contributed to a better and balanced understanding […]
Fortune.com seeks freelance producers
Fortune.com is looking for two full-time freelance producers for May and June, with the opportunity to join our team as a full-time staffer. We are looking for producers who are detail-oriented, organized, and able to manage multiple production assignments during a very busy workday. Experience working in WordPress and other content management systems is a […]
Fortune magazine’s rich design history
J.J. Sedelmaier writes for Print about Fortune magazine’s design history. Sedelmaier writes, “Although it was conceived and prepared while financial times appeared stable, Fortune Magazine was first published soon after the market crash in 1929 by Time Magazine co-founder Henry Luce. Its cover price was set at $1 — the equivalent of more than $15 […]
Fast Company is finalist for Magazine of the Year
Fast Company was named Thursday as one of five finalists for Magazine of the Year by the American Society of Magazine Editors. The National Magazine Awards will be presented on Thursday, May 1, at the New York Marriott Marquis. Bloomberg Businessweek and Money also received two nominations, while Wired received five nominations, including a nomination […]
Why fact checking is important in business journalism
Bethany McLean, a business journalist at Vogue, writes about the importance of fact checking in business journalism on LinkedIn. McLean writes, “I got my job in 1995, just as the last golden age of magazine business journalism, fueled by heavy spending dotcom companies, was beginning. Time Inc, which owns Fortune, was itself just transitioning into […]
Design director leaving Fortune
Tim Leong, the design director at Fortune magazine for the past eight months, is leaving the business magazine to run the design department at Entertainment Weekly. Leong came to Fortune last August from Wired. Both Fortune and Entertainment Weekly are Time Inc. publications. In an email to Talking Biz news, Leong writes, “I’m incredibly excited […]
Fortune.com names news editor, Fortune hires listings editor
Fortune managing editor Andy Serwer sent out the following staff hire announcement on Monday afternoon: We are delighted to annouce the arrival of two key employees to Fortune, Roland Jones and Scott DeCarlo. Both are highly talented and good people too. To paraphrase Dan Patrick over at SI, just our types. Roland Jones will join Fortune.com as […]
Fortune names new publisher
Jed Hartman, group publisher of news and business at Time Inc., made the following announcement on Friday morning: I am pleased to announce that Eric Danetz is the new Publisher of Fortune, overseeing US print, digital sales and marketing. Eric will report to me. Eric comes to us from Defy Media where he has been […]
