Kiplinger’s Personal Finance seeks reporter

The Kiplinger Washington Editors, one of America’s most respected business and personal-finance publishers, is seeking a bright, motivated individual for an entry-level research reporter position on our Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine staff. The reporter will fact-check articles for the magazine and Kiplinger.com Web site, provide research and reporting assistance to writers, and contribute content to […]
Austin Kiplinger dies at 97

Austin Kiplinger, the longtime chairman and editor-in-chief of a financial publishing company that bore his name, has died at the age of 97, reports Ben Nuckols of the Associated Press. Nuckols writes, “A prominent figure in Washington journalism and civic life, Kiplinger led the publishing company founded by his father for nearly 35 years. Before taking over […]
Kiplinger seeks economics reporter

Looking for a challenging, rewarding journalism job that gives you a chance to do more than report what other people say? Kiplinger Editors seeks an experienced, talented reporter to cover the financial services industry and other aspects of U.S. business and the economy for the country’s largest weekly business newsletter and Web site. We’re looking […]
Kiplinger seeks research reporter in DC

The Kiplinger Washington Editors, Inc., one of America’s most respected business and personal-finance publishers, is seeking a bright, motivated individual for an entry-level research reporter position on our Kiplinger’s Personal Fiannce magazine staff. The reporter will fact-check articles for the magazine and Kiplinger.com website, provided research and reporting assistance to writers, and contribute content to the magazine and […]
Kiplinger seeks financial services reporter

Looking for a challenging, rewarding journalism job that gives you a chance to do more than report what other people say? Kiplinger Editors seeks an experienced, talented reporter to cover the financial services industry and other aspects of U.S. business and the economy for the country’s largest weekly business newsletter and Web site. We’re looking […]
Kiplinger ponders its future

Thomas Heath of The Washington Post examined the future of the Kiplinger media company, whose best-known publication is Kiplinger’s Personal Finance. Heath writes, “Washington-based Kiplinger — famous for its weekly Kiplinger Letter that forecasts trends — continues to punch after three generations. “‘We finished comfortably in the black for 2013, thanks to a record million-dollar-plus […]
Kiplinger.com sets traffic record

Kiplinger.com set a new all-time record for traffic in January, with page views spiking to 25.5 million and unique visitors reaching 3.4 million, according to Omniture. These gains follow strong gains in 2013 for Kiplinger due to a site redesign and a tablet version. In 2013, Kiplinger.com saw impressive gains in both audience (up 10 […]
Kiplinger’s hires Bigda as contributing editor

Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine and Kiplinger.com have hired Carolyn Bigda, longtime Money magazine reporter, as contributing editor. At Money, Bigda wrote investing pieces on market trends, individual stocks, ETFs and mutual funds for feature and cover stories. Prior to covering the investing beat, she focused on banking, cash investments, consumer credit and debt management for […]
Kiplinger Letter celebrating 90th anniversary

The Kiplinger Letter is celebrating 90 years of weekly economic and political predictions later this month. The Kiplinger Letter pioneered a concise, telegraphic style that was widely emulated by other publications in the decades to follow. In the Letter’s “sweep-line” style, key points are underlined at the start of each line, which ends in hard […]
Kiplinger launches new version for tablets

Kiplinger has launched a new reader-friendly tablet version of its website using the Onswipe HTML5 platform. Preliminary user testing suggests that the streamlined graphics and a touchable layout featuring image tiles for each article have struck a chord with iPad users. Tablet page views to Kiplinger.com increased 133 percent, and the average time spent increased […]