In June, Ruth Reader begins her seventh year as a Fast Company health tech reporter. Based on our analysis of her 2022 work, Ruth already has what it takes to be a successful analyst or investor. At heart, we suspect she is a storyteller.
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Karen Walker is a consummate management consultant who contributes to Forbes and Fast Company. She thinks differently than journalists do, as you’ll see in this revealing Q & A, conducted Oct. 25.
Fast Company seeks applicants for its upcoming Most Innovative Companies issue, due March 2022. FC this month held briefings to help prospective applicants shape their approach. Below is a summary of one session based on notes taken by an SWMS subscriber who attended.
Add Fast Company to the growing list of publishers launching readership communities. The Fast Company Executive Board now offers a waitlist in advance of its formal opening next week. FC is building its Executive Board in association with The Community Company, a virtual professional services firm that manages councils for Forbes, Rolling Stone, Newsweek and Bizjournals.
Fast Company technology editor Harry McCracken sheds light on newsgathering at physical and virtual events, and changes in FC edit coverage brought on by Covid and other factors. Interview was conducted July 2020.
If it wasn’t before, Fast Company’s Work Life section became perfectly positioned when legions of readers began working where they lived and living where they worked. “I will say what our editor-in-chief, Stephanie Mehta, has said about Work Life, which is, it’s table stakes for us,” says deputy editor Kathleen (Kate) Davis.
Fast Company last week unveiled The Queer 50, a first-ever list of LGBTQ women and nonbinary innovators in business and tech. The idea germinated in Fall 2019, when Fast Company editors and members of Lesbians Who Tech decided informally that “it was about time a list like this existed,” recalls FC editor Julia Herbst.
So the CMO believes in stretch goals and wants you to land a cover story. You know the odds and not the path. Thanks to Fast Company technology editor Harry McCracken, we at least can illuminate the path to this one, published in FC last fall. Read and learn.
The following is an excerpt from a Slack conversation held between Fast Company technology editor Harry McCracken and deputy editor David Lidsky in June 2018 as the pair were deciding whether to publish the Steph Curry/Palm cover story, and if so, how and when. Published with permission.
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⚡️News!⚡️I’ll be the next editor in chief of @FastCompany, following in the footsteps of my new boss @stephaniemehta. My first day is July 18 and I couldn’t be more thrilled, honored, and excited to get started. More soon.
So today is my first day at TechCrunch, where I'll be covering UK and European startups, as well as other areas of the global technology sphere. You can pitch me on: paul.sawers[at].
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I am overjoyed that as of yesterday i am the interim editor of the tech desk @BuzzFeedNews and am now accepting pitches please send them to me laura.june@buzzfeed.com <3 I love emails.
New research: young people avoiding news content in record numbers.
The changing news habits and attitudes of younger audiences
This chapter explores the different news consumption habits of younger audiences including what they consider 'news' in the first place
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