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Heart-Stopping Hallowe'en Horror, Left And Right

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.31.2009 | Politics


Chris Weigant

Happy Samhain, everyone, if that isn't an inherent oxymoron. For those of you who expected (and were, of course, waiting for with bated breath... what...

Fortune Magazine To Cut Number Of Issues

WSJ | SHIRA OVIDE | Posted 10.23.2009 | Media


Capping a tumultuous year for business magazines, Fortune is planning to publish about one-quarter fewer issues annually and make other changes, joini...

Individualism Run Amok

Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 10.08.2009 | Living


Susan Smalley, Ph.D.

I was surprised to read the other day that in some cultures if you are asked 'how are you?' the answer never begins with the pronoun 'I' but rather with a 'we' as in 'we are fine or not fine'.

Why Fortune Loves Charlie Rose

Yvette Kantrow | Posted 10.06.2009 | Media


Yvette Kantrow

A new profile of Charlie Rose is representative of a trend that seems to be growing: the sort of meta-, multi-platform story that has so many odd conflicts and strange connections that it makes you dizzy.

Winning: A Talk with Carla Harris

Martha St Jean | Posted 09.30.2009 | Business


Martha St Jean

"I knew that I would do something that was important. I always wanted to have power, in order to motivate others to reach their goals," says Harris.

Media's Most Powerful Women: Oprah, Anne Sweeney, Judy McGrath, Ann Moore & More

Posted 11.10.2009 | Media


Several media executives were listed among FORTUNE's 50 Most Powerful Women in Business. Oprah, of course, came in first among the media ladies on th...

Zipcars Are The New Hooking Up

Sybil Adelman Sage | Posted 10.16.2009 | Comedy


Sybil Adelman Sage

You don't have to insure it, giving it all the appeal of a mistress who won't write a tell-all book.

Fortune Magazine To Undergo Revamp At Hands Of Time Inc. Execs

New York Post | Posted 08.15.2009 | Media


FORTUNE is back in the sights of Time Inc. Editor-in-Chief John Huey, who has assembled a high-level SWAT team of in-house and external experts to rev...

The Exception

Yvette Kantrow | Posted 06.18.2009 | Business


Yvette Kantrow

At a time when the financial press is in the doghouse for cozying up to CEOs and failing to see the economic disaster ahead, Buffett remains above the fray.

What Will We Do If the New York Times Tanks

James Heffernan | Posted 06.12.2009 | Media


James Heffernan

The short answer is what I'm doing right now, which is Googling my way to other sources on a story the Times itself resolutely refuses to tell.

How To Increase Your Good Luck

Anne Naylor | Posted 06.09.2009 | Living


Anne Naylor

"Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered." William Shakespeare Are you a lucky person? Or are you someone to whom catastrophe often happe...

Hank Paulson, The Unnamed "Decider" In The Merrill Lynch Saga

David Fiderer | Posted 05.16.2009 | Business


David Fiderer

Why would Merrill's senior management, with BofA's acknowledgment, base their internal year-end projections on the assumption that securities prices would recover so sharply?

Alexandra Penney, Madoff Victim: He "Is Not A Human Being," He Is A "Sociopath"

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 02.09.2009 | Business


Alexandra Penney, former editor of Self magazine who lost her life savings in Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme, lashed out against the scam artist in an i...

Magazines Sacrificing Web Sites To Save Print Editions

New York Observer | John Koblin | Posted 01.17.2009 | Media


The operating policy now, particularly at Condé Nast, basically reads: Revenue first! Future later. And the printed page, the luxury object, is stil...

The Recession Hits Home

Marc Gunther | Posted 01.16.2009 | Business


Marc Gunther

I'd love to spend some time in the developing world. (Wouldn't it be great if we could find a way to "green" China, India and Africa, while helping to alleviate global poverty?)

Ask Phyllis...Astrology and Beyond: Sibling-Starved Cancer

Phyllis F. Mitz | Posted 12.27.2008 | Living


Phyllis F. Mitz

Scorpios typically ignite their controlling behaviors out of a need to keep themselves safe -- emotionally and otherwise -- rather than out of deliberate meanness or cruelty.

Stephen Schwarzman And Bruce Wasserstein Spar At Fortune Breakfast

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 11.30.2008 | Business


SCROLL DOWN FOR PHOTOS A powerful crowd turned out for Fortune's breakfast conversation with Stephen Schwarzman and Bruce Wasserstein Thursday mornin...

The Washington Post's Howie Kurtz Blame Financial Press for Economic Crisis

Yvette Kantrow | Posted 11.10.2008 | Media


Yvette Kantrow

So big cheese media critic Howard Kurtz has spoken: The business media is partly to blame for our economic crisis. "As in the savings-and-loan scand...

Twitter: Fortune, SEC Discover The Web Craze

Footnoted, Fortune | Posted 09.07.2008 | Business


Fortune is trying valiantly here to translate Twitter into the language of its readers, but there's only so much one magazine can do with a start-up t...

Fortune, American Express Deny Keith Kelly Report That American Express Has Final Say Over Fortune Small Business Copy

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 08.07.2008 | Media


Update: A spokesperson for the Fortune Money Group has denied Keith Kelly's report that American Express will get final say over the editorial content...

Fortune Wields The Ax: Assistant Managing Editor, Staff Writer Out

FishbowlNY | Noah Davis | Posted 06.14.2008 | Media


FishbowlNY has learned that Fortune assistant managing editor Cait Murphy and staff writer Matthew Boyle have been let go. Murphy has been at the mag...

How The Press Failed Readers On The Changing Credit Card Industry

Columbia Journalism Review | Dean Starkman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


One of the paradoxes of the business press is that while everyone should read it, since we all live in the economy, not everyone does. In fact, most p...

Wal-Mart Gives The New Yorker (And Forbes, Fortune, BizWeek etc) The Boot

Silicon Alley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Good luck getting your hands on Adam Gopnik's latest treatise next time you visit your local Wal-Mart (WMT). The world's biggest retailer is pulling C...

Time Inc, Guild Contract: Print Staffers Don't Have To Write For Web

Women's Wear Daily | Stephanie D. Smith | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


Does The Newspaper Guild's proposed new contract with Time Inc. run counter to the new world order where journalists have to write for both print and ...