Randall Lane (journalist)

Randall Lane
Speaking at the 2021 World Economic Forum
Born1968 (age 55–56)
EducationUniversity of Pennsylvania
Occupation(s)Chief Content Officer and Editor-in-chief, Forbes
Notable credit(s)Forbes, P.O.V., Trader Monthly, Dealmaker, Daily Beast
Children2

Randall Lane (born 1968) is an American journalist and author who serves as the chief content officer[1][2] and editor-in-chief of Forbes magazine.[3][4][5] In 2011, Lane created the Forbes 30 Under 30 list.[6] Lane is a former editor-at-large for both Newsweek and The Daily Beast.[7][8][9]

Career

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Lane edited his college newspaper, The Daily Pennsylvanian at the University of Pennsylvania[where?] before interning with The Wall Street Journal.[10] After leaving college, he was hired as a fact checker for Forbes, and thereafter was promoted to be a staff writer.[10][6] In 1991, when he was 27, he was promoted to Washington Bureau Chief,[10][6] before leaving to edit three publications, P.O.V., Trader Monthly,[11] and Dealmaker (defunct).[6] At Trader Monthly, a bimonthly lifestyle magazine where Lane was the editor-in-chief, Lane created a 30 Under 30 list featuring what his magazine considered the 30 best financial traders at the time.[11] When Lane rejoined Forbes in 2011, he created the annual Forbes 30 Under 30 list of up and coming figures in multiple business sectors.[6][10]

2010s

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Lane wrote a book titled The Zeroes: My Misadventures in the Decade Wall Street Went Insane.[12] In the book, Lane laid out similarities of some Wall Street traders and Major League Baseball players in their views on the ethics of cheating.[13] He interviewed Lenny Dykstra, about his use of steroids while playing with the New York Mets, for the book.[13] The New York Daily News stated of the book that "Lane does a terrific job ... putting things in context".[13]

2020s

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, Lane took part in a multi-part virtual innovation summit hosted by the University of Waterloo.[14][15] The New York Times identified him as one of the 922 most powerful people in the United States of America.[16]

Personal life

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Lane was born in 1968.[17][18] He is divorced and has two daughters, Sabrina and Chloe.[17] During the COVID-19 pandemic, he organized and hosted a four-week summer camp for his daughters and their friends, hiring teachers out of work due to the pandemic to instruct them in core subjects.[17]

Kanye West incident

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On September 16, 2020, Lane was doxxed in a Twitter rant by American musician Kanye West. West tweeted a screenshot of a phone number labeled "Randall Forbes" and wrote "if any of my fans want to call a white supremacist... this is the editor of Forbes".[19] Twitter deleted West's tweet after 30 minutes and suspended his account for violating Twitter's private information policy.[20] Lane had previously interviewed West about his 2020 presidential ambitions which Forbes published in July 2020.[21]

References

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  1. ^ Releases, Forbes Press. "Forbes Announces Inaugural Next 1000 Initiative To Spotlight And Accelerate Rising Entrepreneurs Forging The Path Forward To Redefine The American Dream". Forbes. Retrieved August 5, 2020.
  2. ^ Hsu, Tiffany (July 21, 2019). "Jeffrey Epstein Pitched a New Narrative. These Sites Published It". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved September 13, 2020.
  3. ^ "Bloomberg - Randall Lane". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved August 5, 2020.
  4. ^ "Randall Lane". Columbia University. Retrieved August 5, 2020.
  5. ^ "Forbes Editor Offers Non-Apology For Leaving Women Off Innovators List". HuffPost Canada. September 8, 2019. Retrieved August 5, 2020.
  6. ^ a b c d e Kelly, Keith J. (December 6, 2017). "Forbes promotes its top magazine editor to content chief". New York Post. Retrieved August 5, 2020.
  7. ^ "Randall Lane". The Daily Beast. Retrieved August 14, 2020.
  8. ^ "Congressional Economic Agenda | C-SPAN.org". www.c-span.org. Retrieved September 3, 2020.
  9. ^ "Randall Lane". www.c-span.org. Retrieved September 3, 2020.
  10. ^ a b c d Leavitt, Mollie (June 24, 2019). "Q&A: Randall Lane, Chief Content Officer @ Forbes". Medium. Retrieved August 14, 2020.
  11. ^ a b Schmidt, Michael (August 16, 2006). "Traders' Night Out". The New York Times. Retrieved September 13, 2020.
  12. ^ "Randall Lane: Wall St. Protestors Don't Hate Success, They Hate Big Rewards for Failure". Yahoo Finance. Retrieved September 3, 2020.
  13. ^ a b c Martino, MICHAEL O'KEEFE, Andy. "Randall Lane not breaking any news about Lenny Dykstra and steroids in new tome about Wall Street". nydailynews.com. Retrieved September 3, 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  14. ^ "Virtual Summit 2020". University of Waterloo. Retrieved September 3, 2020.
  15. ^ "Speakers". University of Waterloo. Retrieved September 3, 2020.
  16. ^ Lu, Denise; Huang, Jon; Seshagiri, Ashwin; Park, Haeyoun; Griggs, Troy (September 9, 2020). "Faces of Power: 80% Are White, Even as U.S. Becomes More Diverse". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved September 13, 2020.
  17. ^ a b c Weiss, Suzy (August 19, 2020). "NYC dad creates summer camp for bored daughter, her friends". New York Post. Retrieved September 11, 2020.
  18. ^ Schmidt, Lucinda (October 5, 2010). "Profile: Randall Lane". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved August 5, 2020.
  19. ^ Leskin, Paige. "Twitter took 30 minutes to remove Kanye West's tweet doxxing a top magazine editor". Business Insider. Retrieved January 4, 2022.
  20. ^ Kemp, Dylan (September 17, 2020). "Kanye West's Twitter Suspended After Leaking Journalist's Phone Number". The Source. Retrieved January 4, 2022.
  21. ^ Lane, Randall. "Kanye West Says He's Done With Trump—Opens Up About White House Bid, Damaging Biden And Everything In Between". Forbes. Retrieved January 4, 2022.
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