Categories: OLD Media Moves

Morris headed back to Fortune from Portfolio

Betsy Morris, a long-time Fortune writer who left the magazine last fall to join the new Conde Nast Portfolio, is heading back to Fortune, writes the New York Post’s Keith Kelly.

Kelly wrote, “Morris resigned from her senior writer job yesterday and expected to be named to her old job at Fortune as early as today. She is the second high-profile defection from Editor-in-Chief Joanne Lipman‘s staff. Earlier, Laurie Cohen quit even before the launch took place to return to The Wall Street Journal, where she and Lipman were once colleagues.

“Morris, who continued to work from Atlanta, could not be reached at presstime.

“But unlike some of the stars who were upset when their stories did not make the cut for the first issue, Morris was in the starting lineup with a story on auto-scion Bill Ford and the future of the troubled car company.”

Read more here.Â She hadn’t been gone from Fortune long enough for it to take her bio off its web site.

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.