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 […]
Fortune is finalist for National Magazine Award
Fortune magazine is one of the four finalists in the general excellence category for the 2013 National Magazine Awards, run by the American Society of Magazine Editors. The other finalists are National Geographic, New York and Wired. Two business magazines are finalists in the single issue category. They are Bloomberg Businessweek for “Election Issue,” Oct. […]
Two biz journalists named to NC Journalism Hall of Fame
Two famous business journalists — one for helping blaze a trail for women — have been named to the North Carolina Journalism Hall of Fame. Wyndham Robertson is the former assistant managing editor of Fortune magazine and former business editor of Time magazine. After graduating from Hollins College with an economics degree, Robertson worked as […]
Fortune writing articles for advertisers
Lucia Moses of Adweek writes that Fortune magazine has a deal where it is writing some articles for advertisers. She reports, “Fortune is rolling out a new response to this dilemma in the form of a program called Fortune TOC—Trusted Original Content. Similar to licensed editorial content, TOC involves creating original, Fortune-branded editorial content (articles, […]
What to do with Fortune and Money
Amy Chozick and Christine Haughney of The New York Times are reporting that Time Inc. and Meredith Publishing cannot decide on what to do with business magazines Fortune and Money as part of their proposed deal to merge magazine operations. Chozick and Haughney write, “The Time Inc. domestic titles that are at issue in the […]
Fortune names new creative director
Fortune managing editor Andy Serwer sent out the following staff announcement on Wednesday morning: I am delighted to announce that Brandon Kavulla will be joining Fortune as our new Creative Director. Brandon is an award-winning, veteran CD who will be an incredibly valuable addition to our team. For the last two years Brandon has served […]
