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1 By Kat Stoeffel 2/09 9:52am

Counterpoint

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Thought Catalog Finally Gets the Forbes Profile It Deserves

Thought Catalog is an experimental media company that sells display advertising against millennial eagerness to convert their personal lives into shareable content without any compensation other than the social capital of being liked and followed. Media critics who mistake it for a generational literary manifesto often find themselves mired in irrational hatred of the website when, really, they ought to save their breath for Thought Catalog's obvious progenitor, Facebook. The true sign that a company's ambitions are more business-oriented than artistic—insofar as Thought Catalog can be considered such—is coverage in the capitalist bible Forbes. Which it now has.  Read More

4 By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke 8/09/11 4:27pm

Changes

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Randall Lane Goes Home Again – Home Is Forbes

Randall Lane is leaving Newsweek/The Daily Beast for Forbes, where he will be an Editor, the money mag announced today. Mr. Lane was Editor-at-Large at Newsweek/The Daily Beast. In the hiring announcement, Steve Forbes cites Mr. Lane’s knowledge of the website side as a reason. “Precisely because Randall knows the print and electronic worlds, he Read More

By Zeke Turner 8/30/10 8:46pm

Moves

Media Monday, Situation Usual: Newsweek‘s Loss is National Journal‘s Gain; Two Departures at Forbes

Yet another person is leaving Newsweek. Yet another awesome hire has been made by the National Journal. And more veterans are leaving Forbes. In other words, Media Monday: situation usual.

Newsweek Washington Web editor Michael Hirsh is joining the National Journal as a chief correspondent, covering "the critical intersection of economic policy, foreign policy, and politics," Read More

By Zeke Turner 1:13am

‘Darth D’Vorkin’ Arrives at Forbes

Highlander V was the last and largest of Malcolm Forbes' yachts. In the '80s, Mr. Forbes would throw parties on the boat for potential advertisers, his friends, captains of industry and politicians. Much like the galleries on the first floor of the Forbes Building on Fifth Avenue, Mr. Forbes used the boat to display items Read More

By Felix Gillette 5/25/10 4:02pm

Acquisitions

Forbes Buys True/Slant

Today Lewis Dvorkin, the founder of True/Slant, announced that his former employer Forbes is buying his nascent digital news operation, which launched in April 2009.

Forbes was an early investor in the site and will now be bringing True/Slant entirely into the fold.

Here's Mr. Dvorkin writing about the deal:

The small True/Slant team, with more Read More