Top HR exec for Inc/Fast Company stole nearly $500K
The top human resources executive at the publisher of Inc. magazine and Fast Company allegedly stole more than $429,000 from the business-focused media company, reports Maxwell Tani of Semafor. Tani reports, “In a criminal complaint filed late last month, federal prosecutors said that over the course of four years, Mansueto Ventures director of people and resources […]
Inc. hires Conrad to cover entrepreneurs
Inc. magazine has hired Jennifer Conrad to cover entrepreneurs and the news and technology they need to know about. She has been at Wired as a writer. She previously worked a fact checker at The New York Times Magazine. Conrad has previously worked at Vogue, where she was head of the research department, fact-checking many of the […]
Inc. reporter Angell to cover fed government policy
Inc. reporter Melissa Angell is now covering policy from the White House and government agencies. She will be covering policy and other news from the departments of Labor and Commerce, and other agencies like the SBA. Before her beats touched on health care, health insurance, wellness, the SBA and small business lending Angell joined Inc. magazine in […]
How Fast Company and Inc.’s leader Mehta emphasizes content
Russell Sherman of Press Profiles interviewed Stephanie Mehta, the CEO and chief content officer of the parent company of Fast Company and Inc. magazines. Mehta also worked at The Wall Street Journal and Fortune as a reporter. In her current job, she wants to achieve the importance of quality content. “I had achieved a great deal of […]
LA Times hires Blakely as deputy biz editor
The Los Angeles Times has hired Lindsay Blakely to be deputy business editor. Blakely is currently Inc.com’s managing editor. She also serves as Inc. magazine’s Los Angeles bureau chief, keeping tabs on up-and-coming startups and the fastest-growing companies in the U.S. that call the city home. She’s written cover stories on Jessica Alba, Drybar’s Alli Webb, and Dollar […]
Inc. hires Donaldson as a reporter
Inc. magazine has hired Ali Donaldson as a reporter covering innovation and entrepreneurship. She has spent the last nine months as a graduate student at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Donaldson previously spent four years at Bloomberg News as a news producer and a line producer. She was also a news associate at CNN. She […]
Inc. hires Wang to cover innovations
Inc. magazine has hired Xintian Tina Wang to cover innovations and anything quirky in the business world. She started on Monday. Wang previously was a freelance whose work has appeared in HuffPost, Time magazine, The Daily Beast, Rolling Stone and Teen Vogue, among others. Wang also worked at Pandaily, a Chinese tech news site. She […]
Inc. staff writer Ryan departs magazine
Kevin Ryan, a staff writer at Inc. magazine, is leaving the publication after eight years. He has been covering the innovation beat — startups, entrepreneurs and technology often related to sustainability, biotechnology, artificial intelligence, space, and anything else futuristic. Ryan has also covered product and office design. He is also the author of “Ahead of […]
Fass departs Inc/Fast Company for new opportunity
Allison Fass, vice president for digital growth at Inc. and Fast Company, will be leaving after nearly 11 years for a new opportunity. She has previously served as deputy editor and executive director for digital at Inc. She has also served as director, editorial and business strategy at Rocket Fuel and was a contributing editor […]
Why Inc. began allowing contributors to write for its website
Former Inc. magazine editor in chief James Ledbetter writes for The Observer about the contributor model that allowed Heather Morgan, charged earlier this week with stealing billions in bitcoin, to write for the magazine’s website. Ledbetter left Inc. in 2019. He writes, “We weren’t considering this step primarily for editorial reasons. Rather, we recognized in 2014 that […]
