Only a couple years ago, just as the economy started to tank, magazines took a strange tact with their web teams: they laid them off. Fortune.com, during the heart of the financial crisis in 2008, laid off the bulk of its web team, and put the site back in the hands of the folks at Read More
Last week in Off the Record, we wrote that some magazines, faced with the same unenviable task of having to let some staff go, are choosing to get rid of their Web-only contributors first. Fortune is one of the magazines that has disbanded the vast majority of its Web-only team.
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Soon after Lehman Brothers fell, and New York business writers found themselves smack in the middle of the biggest story of their careers, Fortune’s managing editor, Andy Serwer, convened a staff meeting on the second floor of their Sixth Avenue home.
He wanted to say thank you! Not only did the Read More
Today, Fortune managing editor named Peter Gumbel as Europe Editor. He replaces Nelson Schwartz who left for the New York Times business desk this past April. Full release below:
NEW YORK, NY [June 4, 2007] – FORTUNE managing editor Andy Serwer announced today the appointment of Peter Gumbel as Europe Editor. Gumbel was previously Read More
For media figures who have previously made the climb to the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland, a new peak beckons: In planning the January 2007 edition of the event, Davos organizers are quietly passing around a list of prospective members of an even loftier sub-organization, to be known as the International Media Council.
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Andy Sewer, who has been Fortune’s editor-at-large since 1998, has been promoted to managing editor, according to a release. Former managing editor Eric Pooley will be working on “investigative projects,” with Time Inc. editor-in-chief John Huey and and managing editor Jim Kelly.
Fulll release is after the jump
ANDY SERWER NAMED Read More
