Fortune hires Protocol’s Burton as a reporter

Fortune magazine has hired Amber Burton as a reporter. She will be launching and writing a new newsletter called Chief Human Resources Officer Daily. She previously covered work-related tech issues for Protocol. She has been at Protocol since June 2021. Previously, she covered personal finance and diversity in business at The Wall Street Journal. She earned an […]

Fortune Well has launched, aimed at providing health content

Fortune has debuted Fortune Well, a site for business leaders seeking content that will help them in their lives and careers, reports Ray Schultz of Publishers Daily. Schultz writes, “The platform will deliver journalism in various formats—articles, videos, infographics—that will inform the health choices of Fortune’s readers, and the 100 million people+ reached by CVS Health in […]

Fortune hires Quartz’s MacLellan

Fortune magazine has hired Lila MacLellan from financial news site Quartz. She has been covering leadership, wellness at work, and management topics  in New York after joining Quartz in 2016. Before Quartz she spent the two years freelancing for sites including The Atlantic and Vancouver Magazine. She’s held staff roles at Institutional Investor and Minyanville. MacLellan has […]

Fortune hires Payton for health and wellness beat

Fortune magazine has hired L’Oreal Thompson Payton to be a health and wellness reporter. Payton has been senior editor, mental health and wellness, for YR Media. She is responsible for creating coverage relating to mental health, and social and emotional well-being for the Generation Z population. Her prior professional experience includes serving as director of […]

O’Keefe departing Fortune for Esquire

Brian O’Keefe, senior executive editor at Fortune magazine, is leaving to become executive editor at Esquire. He had bee acting editor of Fortune after editor in chief Clifton Leaf left in 2021. O’Keefe had been overseeing Fortune’s most ambitious long-form storytelling across platforms as well as the production of the print magazine. O’Keefe returned to Fortune in […]

Fortune hires Mikhail to cover health and wellness

Fortune magazine has hired Alexa Mikhail as a reporter covering health and wellness. Most recently at CNN, she was an assistant producers on the live morning news, interviewing in the field and pivoting fast for daily programming. Prior to CNN, Mikhail was a digital reporter with experience covering health and gender pieces,  and her work was featured […]

Fortune hires Williams as senior writer covering work and life

Fortune magazine has hired Trey Williams to be a senior writer covering work and life. He started June 6. He has been at the Kansas City Star, where he oversaw its coverage of race and equity issues across the Kansas City area. Williams has worked as a business reporter in New York, covering Wall Street for MarketWatch, and […]

Roberts returning to Fortune as crypto editor

Jeff Roberts, the executive editor at Decrypt Media, is joining Fortune magazine as crypto editor. He joined Decrypt in February 2021. Roberts specialized in IP and bitcoin stories when he was first at Fortune from 2015 to February 2021. He co-founded The Ledger, a new Fortune franchise dedicated to blockchain and cryptocurrency. His book “Kings of Crypto: […]

Fortune hires Hoffower as success editor

Fortune magazine has hired Hillary Hoffower to be its success editor. Hoffower started on Wednesday. She previously was an economics correspondent covering millennial wealth at Insider. Hoffower focused on the intersection of youth culture and wealth, reporting on the lifestyles and economics of millennials and Gen Z. She covers trends in how these generations are living and […]

Fortune seeks a US news editor

Fortune is hiring a creative, enterprising journalist to join our News team. We’re looking for an editor who wants to help shape the vision and voice of this new section dedicated to reporting on the big business, econ and tech topics of the day. The ideal candidate is interested in working closely with young reporters […]