Fortune seeking deputy tech editor
Fortune is looking for a technology editor to help direct its award-winning coverage for its website, tablet and print magazine. The editor will oversee staff and freelance contributors who write a range of breaking news and analysis pieces on the biggest companies and topics in the tech industry. Candidates should have excellent communication and organizational […]
Time magazine names Vella biz editor
Matt Vella, a technology editor at Fortune magazine, will be joining Time magazine as the senior editor responsible for business coverage across all platforms, a spokeswoman confirmed to Talking Biz News. Vella has been with Fortune since July 2011, editing its technology section and leading daily tech, innovation and autos coverage on Fortune.com. Before Fortune, […]
Fortune hires design director from Wired
Fortune creative director Brandon Kavulla sent out the following staff announcement on Tuesday: I’m very pleased to announce that Tim Leong is joining us as FORTUNE’s new Design Director, where he will help oversee and direct the visual and creative representation of the FORTUNE brand across all platforms. Tim comes to FORTUNE from Wired, where he […]
Biz magazines underperformed industry in second quarter
The 13 business magazines underperformed the rest of the industry in the second three months of 2013, according to data from the Publishers Information Bureau analyzed by Talking Biz News. While the industry reported a small gain in ad dollars and a 4.5 percent drop in ad pages for the second quarter, the business magazines […]
Fortune colleagues remember John Curran
There are some nice quotes from Fortune journalists Carol Loomis and Bethany McLean about their former colleague, John Curran, who died last week at the age of 59, in the obituary on WestportNow.com. Here they are: Carol Loomis of Fortune, the longest serving employee in the history of Time Inc. and a highly awarded financial […]
Bloomberg News editor Curran dies at 59
John J. Curran, a Bloomberg News editor who previously was a longtime journalist at Fortune and editor of Mutual Funds magazine, has died. He was 59. Charles Stevens of Bloomberg writes, “In a career spanning more than three decades in New York, Curran wrote and edited stories on investing, banking, Wall Street and regulation. He […]
Loeb names Minard winner, Lifetime Achievement Award
The recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Award and the Lawrence Minard Editor Award were named Thursday by the G. and R. Loeb Foundation Inc. and the UCLA Anderson School of Management. The 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient is John Huey, former editor-in-chief at Time Inc. This annual award recognizes an individual whose career exemplifies the […]
Wall Streeters care more about their messages online than reporters snooping
Cyrus Sanati of Fortune writes about how the Wall Street bankers and traders who are the core Bloomberg customers are more worried about how some of their private messages using the company terminal made it on the Internet than they are about Bloomberg reporters using the terminal to snoop on them. Sanati writes, “The bulk […]
Biggest issue of Fortune 500 since 2004
This year’s Fortune 500 issue has the most ad pages of any Fortune issue since 2004, reports Emma Bazilian of Adweek. Bazilian writes, “With 193 ads (and a total 356 pages), the magazine’s biggest franchise is up 36 year-over-year in ad pages, including 75 advertisers who didn’t appear in last year’s issue. “Jed Hartman, group […]
Most biz magazines post decline in ad revenue, ad pages
Most of the large business magazines posted a decline in advertising revenue during the first three months of the year, while the overall magazine industry had a small increase in ad money. Leading the decline was Bloomberg Businessweek, which had a 30.2 percent drop in ad revenue to $35.4 million, according to data released by […]
