Worth Media hires Captain as executive editor

Worth Media has hired Sean Captain as executive editor. Worth Media includes Technomy and Worth magazine. Captain has been a freelance writer for publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Wired and Tom’s Guide. He was also managing editor and senior editor at Tom’s Guide. He also worked as senior technology editor at Popular Science […]

Costa hired as chief content officer for Clarim Media

Dan Costa has been hired as chief content and product officer for Clarim Media, the parent of Worth magazine and Techonomy. He is editorial director for both publications. Costa is the host of “Fast Forward,” a podcast about living in the future and founder/editor of Machined, a newsletter that delivers the latest insight and analysis […]

Worth seeks a senior editor

Over the past 30 years, Worth Media has successfully built a diverse community of influential and successful individuals. Worth publishes digital content daily, distributes multiple digital newsletters, produces a quarterly print magazine, and hosts physical and virtual events throughout the year. Our new “Worth beyond wealth” mantra acknowledges our commitment to highlighting topics related to […]

Worth, Techonomy launching new lists

Business publications Worth and Techonomy are launching a “Worthy 100” franchise this fall. The Worth list — “Worthy 100 Entrepreneurs” — will be open-ended and will honor individual founders who are promoting social responsibility. The Techonomy list — Techonomy Worthy 100 Cloud Companies — will include the 100 best private cloud companies with valuations below […]

Worth magazine, online during pandemic, returns to print

Worth magazine, which has been online during the past year because of the pandemic, is returning to print with its June issue. James Ledbetter, chief content officer of Clarim Media, the parent company of Worth magazine and Techonomy, writes, “Yet print retains an enduring power. Some of that power may in fact derive from the […]

Ledbetter hired as chief content officer for Clarim Media

Longtime business journalist James Ledbetter has been hired to be chief content officer of Clarim Media, the parent company of Worth magazine and Techonomy. Ledbetter said that Clarim will continue the fintech newsletter he started last year. “The fact that the leadership at Clarim sees an opportunity to grow FIN as a business was a big reason […]

More changes at WSJ

Elyse Tanouye was named deputy managing editor at The Wall Street Journal on Friday, replacing Alix Freedman, who earlier in the day was named page one editor. Also a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Tanouye will be charged with the Journal’s efforts to maintain and extend the paper’s reputation for accuracy and fairness. Tanouye has been the […]

Business magazines garner multiple awards

Folio:’s Eddie and Ozzie awards were handed out Monday, and business magazines took home some of the hardware. The awards recognize achievement in magazine editorial and design. Here are the business magazine winners: — Inc. magazine’s December 2009 cover won the silver award for best cover of a business-to-business magazine with more than 100,000 circulation. […]

Biz magazine ad revenue declined 22% in 2009, ad pages dropped 28.7%

TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Advertising in 15 business magazines in 2009 fell by $340 million, or 21.7 percent, to $1.23 billion, due to the lingering recession, according to a Talking Biz News analysis of numbers released Tuesday by the Publishers Information Bureau. Advertising pages in those same 15 magazines fell by 28.7 to 12,844.59 pages, […]

Worth aims for high-end biz audience

TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Richard Bradley is the editor of Worth magazine, which is relaunching with its June issue after being acquired by Sandow Media in February 2008. Before joining Worth a year ago, Bradley was executive editor of 02138 magazine in Boston and the author of three books. He also worked at George magazine. […]