Categories: OLD Media Moves

The billionaire beat at Forbes

Joe Pompeo of The Business Insider writes Thursday about how Forbes has been hiring bloggers to cover billionaires around the globe.

Pompeo writes, “As part of that expansion, Forbes.com has recruited a handful of freelance journalists to blog about the people on its annual World’s Billionaires List, with news, analysis and, of course, inside dirt, sources familiar with the plans told us.

“‘It’s going to be a great initiative and I expect you’ll make a superlative contribution to launching the next stage of Forbes.com as a major presence in online news,’ outgoing Forbes.com consultant Michael Roston wrote to the contributors in an email obtained by The Wire.

“Each blogger will cover billionaires in specific areas of the country and around the world, and their posts will be aggregated into a single feed on a new Forbes 400 website scheduled to launch later this month.

“The bloggers include LA Biz Observed editor Mark Lacter and freelance financial journalists Dan Fost and Teri Buhl, who will be reporting on New York’s and Connecticut’s billionaires, a la Michael Bloomberg, Carl Icahn and Steve Cohen.”