Why Quick's column already is much better than Bartiromo's
When Fortune magazine announced last week that CNBC anchor Becky Quick would begin writing a regular column for the glossy, a few snickers were heard among business media insiders. Here we go again, another business magazine trying to pull in readers with name recognition and a pretty face. CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo had written a […]
Fortune's downfall and its redesign
Marion Maneker of The Big Money writes Thursday that he doesn’t think that a redesign of Fortune magazine is going to help the business glossy. Maneker writes, “I might even go out and buy the magazine next week just to get it. But if Patricia Sellers doesn’t deliver, I can’t see much else in the […]
Fortune ME Serwer talks redesign
Peter Kafka of All Things Digital talks with Fortune managing editor Andy Serwer about its redesign, which will hit newsstands and mailboxes in the next week. Read Kafka’s post here.
Fortune's new look
Keith Kelly of the New York Post writes Wednesday about the redesigned Fortune magazine. Kelly writes, “‘We’re redesigning it from a graphic and design point of view and to some extent from an editorial point of view,’ said Managing Editor Andy Serwer of the new issue, which has a March 22 cover date. “Serwer said […]
Prototype of Fortune found
The business journalism program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recently purchased the prototype of Fortune magazine from a private collector. It’s believed that less than a dozen of these prototypes remain in existence.
Roth returns to Fortune as ME of site
Fortune managing editor Andy Serwer sent out the following announcement to the staff Thursday morning: “I’m very pleased to announce that Daniel Roth will be returning to FORTUNE as the new Managing Editor of Fortune.com. Dan is an accomplished and techno-savvy business journalist who has covered the world’s largest companies from Microsoft and Estee Lauder […]
Biz magazine ad revenue declined 22% in 2009, ad pages dropped 28.7%
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Advertising in 15 business magazines in 2009 fell by $340 million, or 21.7 percent, to $1.23 billion, due to the lingering recession, according to a Talking Biz News analysis of numbers released Tuesday by the Publishers Information Bureau. Advertising pages in those same 15 magazines fell by 28.7 to 12,844.59 pages, […]
Former Newsday editor on Sloan winning biz journalist of decade award
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Howard Schneider, the former Newsday managing editor and editor who now runs the journalism program at SUNY-Stony Brook, sent Talking Biz News the following comments about Fortune senior editor at large Allan Sloan, a former Newsday business columnist, after hearing that Sloan had been named Talking Biz News’ business journalist of […]
Sloan "flattered" at being named biz journalist of the decade
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Fortune senior editor at large Allan Sloan said Friday that he was “flattered” at being named the Talking Biz News business journalist of the decade and provided some perspective on his favorite writings of the past decade and other reasons for his success. “Two of my favorite columns … are from […]
Sloan is biz journalist of decade
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Allan Sloan, senior editor at large for Fortune magazine, is the top business journalist of the past decade, according to an unscientific, subjective review by Talking Biz News. Sloan, who has won seven Gerald Loeb Awards, was picked over colleague Carol Loomis of Fortune and Bethany McLean, formerly of Fortune and now with Vanity […]
