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Forbes Sale Ushers In New Era Of Journalism

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Mark Melin
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Lewis DVorkin, the chief product officer at Forbes, looks at the world of online journalism as a mother might look at their son now in the working world: a lot has changed.

Forbes completes the sale of a family-run media empire

As Forbes completes the sale of a family-run media empire, transferring it into the hands of a Hong Kong-based hedge fund, and fetching a tidy sum in the process, it gave hope to media observers that journalism was alive and well.

The real story, however, isn’t quite so simple.

To hear DVorkin tell it, journalism is alive and well, it might just not look like the journalistic mainstream model of old.  And he should know. At Forbes, DVorkin took charge of revamping...

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.