Huey involved in redesign at Fortune
Time Inc. editor in chief John Huey is overseeing a redesign at Fortune magazine, where he was once in charge, writes Keith Kelly of the New York Post. Kelly writes, “However, the move creates a tough balancing act for Huey, who must try to implement changes to rejuvenate the brand without alienating the magazine’s top […]
The magazine bloodbath continues
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE The second three months of 2009 was a disaster in the business magazine sector, as no publication reported an increase in advertising revenue or an increase in ad pages. The overall magazine industry saw a 22 percent decline in ad revenue and a 29.5 percent decline in ad pages, according to […]
Happy 80th birthday, Carol Loomis
NewsBios’ Twitter feed is reporting that Fortune senior editor at large Carol Loomis turns 80 today. Here’s an interview I conducted of Loomis back in 2005 about her 50-plus years at Fortune.
Fortune's Bing vs. Microsoft's Bing
Fortune magazine columnist Stanley Bing — a pseudonym — is one of the best business writers today at using humor and sacrasm to make his point. His column has the coveted back page spot in each issue. Software giant Microsoft Corp. announced this week a search engine called Bing that it will compete with Google. […]
Fortune.com experiments with articles
Andrew Vanacore of the Associated Press writes about how Fortune magazine is using Flyp to bring its stories to life online. Vanacore writes, “In April, the magazine published a whopping 11,000-word investigation on Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme. The story ran in standard online form, with photos and links to related stories, but the text stood […]
Sloan to receive Bell Award
Business journalist Allan Sloan will receive the Elliott V. Bell Award from the New York Financial Writers Association at its annual dinner next month. The award is named for a former BusinessWeek editor who was one of the founders of the organization, and it recognizes a person’s long-term contributions to financial journalism. Previous winners include […]
The problem with Buffett's relationship with biz journalists
Yvette Kantrow, the executive editor of The Deal, finds plenty to fault with Warren Buffett’s recent decision to have three business journalists — Andrew Ross Sorkin of The New York Times, Becky Quick of CNBC and Carol Loomis of Fortune — ask the questions at his company’s annual meeting. Kantrow writes, “By so doing, the […]
Loeb finalists announced
The finalists for the 2009 Gerald Loeb Awards for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism were announced Wednesday morning. The Loeb Awards are the highest honors in business journalism. They were established in 1957 by Gerald Loeb, a founding partner of E. F. Hutton, to encourage quality reporting in the areas of business, finance and the […]
The end of biz mags as we know it?
Douglas McIntyre of 24/7 Wall Street writes about how the big three business magazines — Fortune, Forbes and BusinessWeek — will have to dramatically change to survive in the future. McIntyre says that all three lost money in the first quarter. He writes, “BusinessWeek is doing so badly that its parent has a small number […]
Other business magazines will fail
Jon Friedman, the media columnist at Marketwatch, predicts that the closing of business magazine Conde Nast Portfolio on Monday won’t be the last of the biz glossies to shutter. Friedman writes, “The business model no longer can be sustained in a digital age. In a bear market where people prefer to sit on the sidelines, […]
