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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

Wall Street Journal is Faster Than A Speeding Bullet

AAA Rating, affirmed: it would have taken Superman being placed in DC Comics' batting lineup to overcome The Wall Street Journal last night. Wall Street may have had a rollercoaster week, but the Journal’s softball team was trending upwards – they beat DC’s Bullets 11-4. News assistant Will Smith—yes, that one—hit three homeruns in three directions, prompting Read More

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

Newsweek and The Daily Beast Learn Spirit of Teamwork

Although they had a rocky start to the season (and a broken nose), the team’s stats are now giving Tina Brown reason to celebrate the merger (recently christened again by the recent redirect of Newsweek's site to the belly of the Beast). Before The Daily Beast and Newsweek merged, they were Read More

Julia Allison is the Female George Gurley, Says Julia Allison

It's been a while since we heard from Julia Allison--the hyperconfessional onetime princess of the Gawker-made "fameball" set, whose antics were brought to light, at a granular pace, on Gawker, and comprehensively in Vanessa Grigoriadis's New York article on web-era cynicism. The social-media socialite, famed for her writing on sex and relationships as Read More

Bonfire of the Vanities: High Times smokes Vanity Fair

Last weekend was a bad time to be Rupert Murdoch. Not only did he shutter British tabloid News of the World after the phone hacking scandal reached epic proportions, but The Wall Street Journal’s champion softball team lost a highly anticipated game...to a bunch of stoners. Read More

In Other News…: Kevin Bacon, Made Out of Bacon

- Behold, a Kevin Bacon statue made out of...BACON! We demand a Mia Hamm statue made out of Hamm. And then a companion Jon Hamm ham statue. And then an entire meat museum built next to Madame Tussaud's. Lady Gaga's meat dress needs a new home.

- Times' columnists before-and-after hot-or-not slideshow. Spoiler warning: Maureen Read More

SLIDESHOW: What Kind of Art Do Billionaires Buy?

Forbes’ annual list of the 400 richest Americans came out last week, and (surprise!) some of the country’s richest people are also its most prominent art collectors. Here’s a closer look at the top art lovers to make the list, and what they’re spending all that money on. (Spoiler alert: Jasper Read More

David Koch Unseats Bloomberg as Richest Man in New York

Forbes released its annual list of the 400 richest Americans last night, and the two New Yorkers in the top ten have swapped positions. David Koch, the billionaire right-wing Tea Party benefactor, has seen his fortune increase to a hefty $21.5 billion, placing him fifth on the list. Bloomberg's riches increased as well Read More

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

Who Is Dan Akerson? GM CEO ‘Wants Turmoil,’ Enjoys Pulling Tubes From Arm

Ed Whitacre, who has led General Motors to a vastly new era or optimism and profit, shocked the business world today when he announced that he's stepping down in a few weeks. His replacement will be a relatively anonymous director named Dan Akerson, currently at the strange and omnipotent Carlyle Group. As everyone Read More

‘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

True/Slant and Lewis Dvorkin Come on at Forbes, Online Editor-in-Chief Peels Off

Less than a month after Forbes purchased the website True/Slant and brought its founder Lewis Dvorkin into the fold as chief product officer, the company has lost another top editor.

Paul Maidment, the chief editor of Forbes.com and an executive editor of the magazine, has resigned. Today will be his last day, according to Read More

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

Forbes Determines Best Prep Schools

There is nothing met with more enthusiasm among America's achievers than a semi-meaningless list: this explains the continued existence of U.S. News & World Report.

But why stop at colleges, and graduate programs? Sensing an opening, Forbes has published a list of the nation's top prep schools. You will be relieved to learn that Read More