Fortune managing editor Andy Serwer sent out the following announcement to the staff on Monday:
More great news on Fortune 500 Day! I am delighted to tell you that Bethany McLean is coming back to Fortune as a columnist at the new Fortune.com.
It’s an auspicious day for a return, as we launch the new site and release the Fortune 500. Bethany of course was a most distinguished writer here for many years before she decamped to Vanity Fair to become a contributing editor there. She will continue in that role at VF.
I am thrilled that Bethany is back with us at Fortune.com. She’s an amazing journalist and really good people too.
McLean was one of the first journalists to question Enron’s accounting methods. She wrote “The Smartest Guys in the Room” about Enron with Fortune writer Peter Elkind. She also co-wrote “All the Devils are Here” with Joe Nocera.
McLean is a Williams College graduate.
