Fast Company's Safian says business magazines should be fun
Robert Safian, who became editor of Fast Company magazine earlier this year, is on a hot streak. The magazine, which has been sold twice in the past decade, is trying to recapture its past glory. Safian, who also oversees the business side of the magazine, has seen the magazine garner a Gerald Loeb Award as […]
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 […]
New SABEW president talks about business journalism
Gail DeGeorge, who was elected president of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers last week, is the Sun-Sentinel’s business editor, a position she has held for nine years. She is responsible for directing the coverage of South Florida’s business community by a staff of ten reporters, four assistant editors and an editorial assistant. […]
A PR person's perspective about business journalism
Hope Heyman has more than 25 years experience in corporate communications and public relations, specializing in media relations. She serves as the chief media strategist for a number of financial, corporate and health services companies as the senior vice president in Edelman’s New York Office. Before entering public relations, Hope was a reporter and writer […]
Union talks tough with Dow Jones management
E.S. “Jim” Browning has been a Wall Street Journal reporter for more than 27 years, in Hong Kong, Tokyo, Paris and New York. He currently write about financial markets and investing for the Journal. But for the hundreds of business journalists who work at the Journal or Dow Jones properties such as MarketWatch, Barron’s and […]
Biz news is different at American City Business Journals
Beth Hunt became manager of editorial operations for Charlotte-based American City Business Journals last year, leaving her job as editor of the Washington Business Journal, one of the company’s 42 weekly business newspapers. Hunt, who had been editor of the paper for seven years, is now in charge of developing and implementing new content initiatives […]
Q&A with Wall Street Journal publisher
Wall Street Journal publisher Gordon Crovitz recently oversaw a redesign of the newspaper, making it smaller, but also focusing it more on analysis instead of breaking news. Crovitz began his career at Dow Jones in 1980 as a summer intern writing editorials for The Journal. He was founding editorial page editor of The Wall Street […]
Noblet explains AP's new Money & Markets offering
Kevin Noblet, the business editor at the Associated Press, has been part of a team at the wire service examining how it can put together a new page for business sections as a replacement for the stock listings that many papers are cutting. Called Money & Markets, the new AP product is now rolling out […]
SPJ president urges biz journalists to stop relying on inside-baseball stories
Christine Tatum, an assistant business editor at the Denver Post, became president of the Society of Professional Journalists in August, becoming one of only a handful of leaders in the organization’s history who focused on business reporting. Tatum, 35, was a reporter for the Greensboro News & Record in North Carolina and for the Arlington […]
Understanding the Business & Media Institute
Dan Gainor, the director of the Business & Media Institute, is a veteran editor with two decades’ experience in print and online media. He has served as an editor at several newspapers including The Washington Times and The Baltimore News-American. Gainor also has extensive experience in online publishing – holding the position of managing editor […]
