Categories: OLD Media Moves

Forbes sells The Social Register

The Forbes family has quietly sold off The Social Register — the 128-year-old biannual directory that has cataloged the country’s old money families.

Keith Kelly of the New York Post writes, “‘The ownership of the Social Register Association, previously owned by a subsidiary of Forbes Family Holdings, was transferred for the first time in nearly 40 years to Christopher R. Wolf, noted financier and longtime listed member,’ a Forbes spokesperson confirmed Friday.

“Terms were not disclosed. Wolf did not return e-mails for comment.

“In some ways, TSR was a forerunner of the numerous wealth lists — including the Forbes 400 — that have proliferated in recent years.

“While it is seen as anachronistic to some, the 25,000 names still carry clout among those to the manor born.”

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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.