Tim O’Brien, senior government editor of Bloomberg Feeling, sent out the following to the team:
Hello there Folks —
Bob Burgess and I are delighted to enable you know that Beth Kowitt will be becoming a member of Impression in New York as a senior columnist covering Corporate The united states. Beth is a senior editor at Fortune, where by she has worked given that 2008. Beth is a excellent author, an original thinker and has boatloads of working experience.
A piece Beth wrote previously this calendar year: “The Daily life and Loss of life of Kent Taylor,” about the founder and CEO of Texas Roadhouse, who died by suicide in 2021 right after enduring horrible write-up-COVID signs, is just one of my favorites. Another one of her functions, “McFamily Feud: Scandal, lawsuits, and cultural upheaval at McDonald’s,” a short while ago been given an honorable point out for cultural criticism from the Nationwide Press Club. Then there is “America’s Black Mind Drain,” which gained the New York Push Club Award last yr for enterprise crafting. “Fertility Inc.: Inside the Small business of Babymaking,” is yet another gem.
On the accountability facet of the ledger, a tale Beth co-wrote in 2018, “Former Tronc Chairman and Investor Michael Ferro Accused of Inappropriate Advancements by Two Women,” gained a SABEW. Ferro retired just in advance of the tale was released. Her 2017 piece, “Silicon Valley and the Research for Meatless Meat,” was provided in the Very best American Meals Creating anthology.
Beth, a graduate of Bowdoin College or university and the Columbia University Graduate College of Journalism, has also been a linchpin of Fortune’s “Most Powerful Women” conference franchise. Due to the fact 2019, she’s co-chaired the annual collecting of all those the magazine deems to be the most effective ladies in company. She will help method and reasonable the celebration, and has also co-chaired Fortune’s MPW Following Gen convention (for preeminent mounting females in business enterprise) considering that 2015. She’s performed a key role pulling with each other Fortune’s once-a-year “Most Highly effective Females in Business” checklist for several decades, much too.
Mainly because she does not get exhausted, I guess, Beth is also involved with Fortune’s Global Sustainability Forum and co-chairs the Fortune-U.S. Division of State Worldwide Women’s Mentoring Partnership (which matches two dozen global female business leaders with mentors from the Fortune MPW local community).
Beth will sign up for us on Oct. 31. You should welcome her to Feeling when she comes.
Many thanks,
Tim
