Harry McCracken on Pitching Contributed Content to Fast Company’s Tech Section
November 7, 2021
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Profile: Karen Walker, Forbes/Fast Company
October 27, 2021
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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.
How to Apply to Fast Company’s ‘Most Innovative Companies’
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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.
Fast Company Paid Community Lets Members Publish
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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.
Profile: Harry McCracken, Fast Company
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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.
How to Pitch Contributions to Fast Company’s ‘Work Life’
June 1, 2020
8:21 pm
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 Unveils ‘Queer 50’
June 1, 2020
4:22 pm
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.
Harry McCracken: Anatomy of a Fast Company Cover Story
June 12, 2019
10:22 pm
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.
Fast Company’s Harry McCracken and David Lidsky Discuss a Cover Story
June 12, 2019
6:45 pm
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.
Analysis: Here Come the Unions
June 12, 2018
6:46 pm
Fast Company editors voted to unionize last week. So did the New Yorker’s. Should PR care? Not directly. Unionization does affect the editorial environment in which you pitch. Over time, if the economics of publishing don’t improve, the best journalists may well seek to work where editors are “protected.”
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