Randall Lane (journalist)

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Randall Lane
Randall Lane (born 1968) at World Economic Forum Davos 2021.png
Speaking at the 2021 World Economic Forum
Born1968 (age 55–56)
Education University 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]

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Career

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

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

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

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

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]

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References

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  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. 1 2 3 4 5 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. 1 2 3 4 Leavitt, Mollie (June 24, 2019). "Q&A: Randall Lane, Chief Content Officer @ Forbes". Medium. Retrieved August 14, 2020.
  11. 1 2 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. 1 2 3 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. 1 2 3 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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