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Forbes.com hits 50 million unique viewers in September

Forbes chief product officer Lewis Dvorkin reports Monday that the business magazine’s website has hit 50 million unique viewers in September, a new record.

Dvorkin writes, “Three years ago this month, we launched the beginnings of a new publishing platform for our staffers and contributors, now a mix of 1,200 journalists, authors, academics and other topic experts. Early this morning, we officially passed 50 million unique visitors, as measured by Omniture. It may be just a number, but it represents the power of a unique content-creation model that sits at the foundation of our efforts to build a sustainable model for journalism.

“Below are a few posts that tell the story. In the next few weeks, we’ll be publishing a second ebook, The Path Forward for the News Business Requires Free-Thinking New Leaders.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.