New leader for Time Inc. business publications
Keith Kelly of The New York Post reports Friday that Time Inc. will be making a change in the person who leads its business publications, which include Fortune, Business 2.0Â — which Kelly says is in danger of being folded into another magazine — and Money. Kelly wrote, “Chris Poleway, president of the group known as […]
NYTimes media writer Siklos leaving for Fortune
Keith Kelly of The New York Post writes Wednesday that New York Times media writer Richard Siklos, who has been covering the News Corp./Dow Jones & Co. negotiations, is leaving the paper to work for Fortune magazine. Kelly wrote, “Siklos, who has been at the Times for two years, writes the Media Frenzy column for […]
Those are fighting words
Sam Schulman, publishing director of the new business magazine The American, took a swipe Monday at one of the established competitors, Fortune, and the cover story of its latest issue. Schulman wrote, “Fortune, for example, has been hiring editors and writers with a strong anti-business and anti-free-market bias. “The cover story on Hilary Clinton is […]
Personal finance press out of ideas
TheDeal.com executive editor Yvette Kantrow believes that the personal finance publications have officially run out of ideas after she read Money magazine’s article about how to marry a billionaire. Kantrow wrote, “Yes, we know. Money probably produced this little primer with its tongue planted firmly in its cheek. But Spy magazine it ain’t. And we […]
Serwer: Fortune will show my personality
Since becoming the new managing editor of Fortune magazine in late 2006, Andy Serwer has changed the Time Inc. glossy in a number of ways. He’s launched a redesign of the magazine, slated to appear by the end of 2007, and hired back some business journalists who left the magazine under prior management, most notably Betsy […]
Biz magazine covers as contrarian indicators
Nicholas Vardy writes on the Seeking Alpha web site about the research that shows how being on the cover of a business magazine is a contrarian indicator when it comes to investing. The latest example, he says, is Apple Inc. on the cover of The Economist. Vardy wrote, “The more important question for us is how […]
WSJ is behind others online
Sramana Mitra writes on the Seeking Alpha web site that News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch will need to overhaul the Wall Street Journal’s web operations to make it the No. 1 business news site if he is successful in acquiring Dow Jones & Co., its parent. Mitra wrote, “Even though, they own the The Wall […]
Serwer trying to woo back those who left Fortune
Michael Calderone of the New York Observer interviews Fortune managing editor Andy Serwer about his first six months on the job and notes that he’s trying to bring back some staff members who left in recent years. Betsy Morris, who left Fortune last year for Conde Nast Portfolio, recently returned to the Time Inc. glossy. […]
Using the business media to hype a penny stock
Tom Anderson, associate editor of Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, writes how a Chinese company that recently began trading in the U.S. markets is using ads in business magazines to pump up its stock price. Anderson wrote, “Full-page advertisements that appeared in BusinessWeek, Forbes and Fortune make Guangzhou Global Telecom (symbol GZGT, quoted on the OTC Bulletin Board) […]
Morris headed back to Fortune from Portfolio
Betsy Morris, a long-time Fortune writer who left the magazine last fall to join the new Conde Nast Portfolio, is heading back to Fortune, writes the New York Post’s Keith Kelly. Kelly wrote, “Morris resigned from her senior writer job yesterday and expected to be named to her old job at Fortune as early as […]
