Futures magazine changes name to Modern Trader

Futures magazine, which has been published since 1972, is changing its name to Modern Trader with the July issue.

The name change reflects the fact that its coverage has been more than the futures markets for quite some time, said editor Daniel Collins.

“It’s more than a re-branding,” said Collins in a telephone call with Talking Biz News. “We’ve always covered more. Futures doesn’t encompass all that we do.”

Collins noted that the Chicago-based magazine was originally called Commodities before changing its name to Futures.

The magazine has an estimated 50,000 subscribers and is sold at Barnes & Noble and Books-a-Million. Its primary subscribers are professional traders and active investors.

Modern Trader now includes 20 new editorial departments that have market insight and analysis, including stories about how technology is changing the way traders get information. A story in the July issue examines the ways traders and investors get their market news.

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.