Betsy Morris, a long-time Fortune reporter who has been based out of Atlanta, is leaving the magazine for a job at Conde Nast Portfolio, the new glossy that will debut next year, the New York Post’s Keith Kelly reported.
Kelly wrote, “‘I have to say, I’m sorry to leave, but I’m really ready for a change,’ said Morris, who will remain based in Atlanta. She’s at least the third Fortune writer to jump to the new venture.
“Jim Ledbetter, a one-time media writer who long ago headed off to London to try to launch the European version of The Industry Standard, is coming home to a job on the financial Web site at Time Inc.
“He’ll be deputy editor at CNNMoney.com.”
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Prior to joining Fortune, Morris spent 14 years at the Wall Street Journal as a writer and bureau chief.
She has a B.A. in journalism and history from Stanford University and a M.S. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She is married to John Helyar, the author of Barbarians at the Gate, which was on The New York Times bestseller list for nine months and which was made into an Emmy award winning film on HBO. He is also the author of Lords of the Realm: The Real History of Baseball, which won the Casey Award for Baseball Book of the Year in 1994.
