Forbes hires Taran as a senior travel writer
Astrid Taran has joined Forbes as a senior travel writer to cover hotels, destinations, cruises, tours and gear. Recently, Taran was at Dotdash Meredith, where she worked for seven years, where she was senior editor of TripSavvy. She also served as a social media editor, senior social media editor and special projects editor for TripSavvy. […]
Forbes seeks a news desk reporter
Forbes is growing its News Desk. The ideal candidate should be a news obsessive with a passion for thinking quickly and creatively off breaking news and emerging news trends and topic areas. The challenge for the desk is to quickly distill big news events down to their essence, in crystal-clear prose and and with […]
Smith departs FT for Forbes
Sophia Smith, a newsletter editor at the Financial Times, has left and joined Forbes as a product manager for newsletters. Previously, Smith was at Medium, where she worked as an associate editor, assistant editor and editorial producer. She interned at and served as an assistant editor and then managing editor at Maker Media. Smith graduated […]
Foreign ownership concerns hurting Forbes deal
Fear of U.S. government scrutiny is holding up a deal to sell Forbes to a foreign buyer, leaving the company scrambling to find U.S. investors, report Ben Smith and Liz Hoffman of Semafor. Smith and Hoffman report, “Shiv Khemka, an Indian billionaire whose fortune was amassed over decades living in Russia, has been leading the purchase of the iconic, […]
Pitch values Forbes at $800M with $285M in revenue
A pitch deck from India-based Sun Group is trying to lure tech billionaires and Hollywood types to join its bid for Forbes, which values the firm at $800 million, reports Sara Fischer of Axios. Fischer reports, “In the deck described to Axios by sources pitched on the opportunity, the investor group argues that Forbes — […]
Porterfield departing Forbes for The Art Newspaper
Forbes breaking news reporter Carlie Porterfield is leaving the publication to join The Art Newspaper, where she will cover the art market. She has been at Forbes since August 2019 and as a breaking news reporter since March 2020. Porterfield previously worked as a reporter for Community Impact Newspapers in Texas and for the Hays Free […]
Erb rejoins Forbes
Kelly Phillips Erb has rejoined Forbes, where she worked for nearly a decade from 2011 to 2021. “I’m excited to return to work with friends and colleagues, writing and sharing stories that matter to tax professionals and taxpayers,” she wrote on LinkedIn. “It’s a thrill to be able to do the things that I love on […]
Forbes hires Faguy as a breaking news reporter
Ana Faguy has joined Forbes as a breaking news reporter. Recently, she was a fact check fellow at USA Today. Before that, Faguy was a reporting fellow at E&E News, where she contributed daily to two newsletters covering ongoing energy and environmental issues. She was a reporter at The Baltimore Sun, where she pitched and […]
Forbes hires Whitmire as senior editor for newsletters
Forbes has hired Sarah Whitmire as its senior editor for newsletters. She comes from McClatchy, where she was a senior news content strategist for the past year. Before that, she was national newsletter editor, senior audience editor and social media editor at McClatchy. Whitmire also worked at the Center for Public Integrity as a social media manager […]
Forbes taps Murray as explainers and trends reporter
Forbes has hired Conor Murray as an explainers and trends reporter. Murray previously was an intern at Forbes covering America’s richest people. He also interned at Philadelphia magazine and at NBCNews.com. Murray graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a news editor and a reporter for The Daily Pennsylvanian.
