Kahn exits Bloomberg News for Fortune
Jeremy Kahn has moved on from Bloomberg to rejoin Fortune magazine and cover artificial intelligence and other forms of disruptive technology. He was most recently a technology beat reporter at Bloomberg News, and before that was a writer for Bloomberg Markets magazine. “My career started at Fortune 20 years ago and I am eager to […]
Fortune seeks a social media editor in LA
Fortune, which boasts signature franchises like the Fortune 500, Most Powerful Women in Business and the World’s Greatest Leaders, seeks a Social Media Editor to join its audience engagement team to help lead the development and day-to-day execution of Fortune’s social media and distribution strategy. This editor will collaborate with Fortune’s writers and editors on […]
Morris joins Fortune as staff writer
Fortune has hired David Z. Morris as staff writer. Morris was previously a freelance writer with bylines in Fortune, The Atlantic, Slate, Pacific Standard, and other outlets. He’s also a former social science researcher. His primary areas of interest include race and identity, technology, and culture. Fortune in May raised its cover price, established a […]
Fortune is raising its price, adding a paywall
Fortune magazine is raising its cover price, launching a digital paywall and boosting its conference business, reports Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg of The Wall Street Journal. Trachtenberg reports, “Mr. Murray, a former Wall Street Journal editor, said the digital paywall would be implemented later this year, and that early next year the print magazine would be […]
Fortune’s digital staff votes to join union
Fortune magazine’s digital staff voted 20-3 earlier this week to join the NewsGuild of New York. The staffers issued a statement that read, “We look forward to joining the 41% of the staff already represented by the existing union agreement and working with management to agree on a contract that covers all editorial workers equally.” […]
Journal Sentinel, Fortune win National Headliner Awards
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Rick Barrett has won first place in business news coverage in the 85th National Headliner Awards. The awards are given by The Press Club of Atlantic City. The judges wrote: Hundreds of Wisconsin dairy farms are going under as a glut of milk on the market collapses prices and profits. Rick Barrett’s […]
Union files for secret ballot vote among Fortune digital staff
The Fortune union organizing committee sent the following message to the digital staff of the magazine: Hi friends, We wanted to provide you with an update on our unionization efforts. We’re happy to tell you that the NewsGuild has filed for a secret ballot election at the request of the Fortune union organizing committee. After […]
Fortune’s digital editorial staff seeks union recognition
Fortune magazine’s digital staff is now among the many digital newsrooms to look to unionization in the last year as they continue to face professional uncertainty, reports Kali Hays of WWD. Hays writes, “Staffers are pushing for voluntary recognition with representation from NewsGuild in an effort to ‘safeguard our rights as workers and sustain the […]
Fortune signs deal for its ad technology
Fortune is partnering with Placements.io as it rebuilds its advertising technology stack, reports Sara Guaglione of Publishers Daily. Guaglione writes, “Placements.io will serve as Fortune’s revenue management platform. The Seattle-based start-up works with publishers and ecommerce partners. “The company offers integrations with Salesforce, NetSuite, Google Ad Manager, as well as a proprietary migration automation tool, allowing publishers to […]
Fortune hires Dunn as associate editor
Fortune magazine has hired Katherine Dunn to be an associate editor in London. Dunn has been an associate editor at S&P Global covering LPG in London. Previously, she covered agricultural and commodities markets at the Wall Street Journal/Dow Jones in London and covered business and general news for magazines and newspapers in Canada. “I’ll miss my […]
