Peter Carbonara has been hired by Forbes as a reporter and editor covering entrepreneurship.
He will start on May 26 as deputy editor, entrepreneurs, reporting to Loren Feldman, who is senior editor of entrepreneurs.
“I really thought I’d had my last full-time journalism job, but I’m delighted to see I was wrong,” said Carbonara in an email to Talking Biz News. “I’ll be covering entrepreneurship and reporting to Loren Feldman, whom I’ve known for years and is one the best editors I ever had. Can’t wait to get started.”
He has been a freelancer for the past five-and-a-half years, but previously Carbonara worked for BusinessWeek as a senior writer, Institutional Investor as an assistant managing editor and Fortune as an editor.
Carbonara also worked as a senior writer and senior editor for Money magazine, and as a staff writer for American Lawyer.
As a a print reporter he’s written about everything from murder, rabies, to a wide variety of big money corporate disputes, private equity, banks, oil futures, debt collectors, mutual funds, stock scams, and hospitals
For Court TV, Carbonara produced one-hour shows about trials. At Frontline he reported and field produced shows about Whitewater, the Navy’s Tailhook scandal, and the storming of the Branch Davidian compound.
