Randall Lane

New York

Editor and Chief Content Officer at Forbes

Chief Content Officer, @Forbes Media. Founder, #30Under30/ #Under30Summit. Part-time food/wine critic, full-time journalism advocate, lifelong entrepreneur.

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Articles

Content Creators: A New Breed Of Entrepreneur

1 week ago | forbes.com | Randall Lane

If you want to feel popular, place yourself, as I did, at the center of a gathering of people who make money building worlds around themselves. The setting: Forbes’ inaugural Creator Upfronts in Los Angeles last October. The audience: media buyers for the world’s top brands. The dynamic: a pitching frenzy, including lobbying of Forbes, which has emerged as the ultimate validator in this nascent, surging industry.
Chronicling Wealth And Power In The Public Interest

2 months ago | forbes.com | Randall Lane

Forbes has been tracking the planet’s billionaires for four decades, a duty we take seriously: Roughly 100 reporters worked on this 39th annual Billionaires issue, our yearly snapshot of the world’s wealthiest. “It’s an army of financial sleuths,” says Senior Editor Chase Peterson-Withorn, who led the effort.
Legendary Forbes Leaders, Old And New

Feb 6, 2025 | forbes.com | Randall Lane

This story appears in the December/January 2025 issue of Forbes Magazine. SubscribeWhen I arrived at Forbes out of college, two veterans took me under their wings: Howard Rudnitsky, an in-house financial analyst who could scan any 10-K and instantly find a great story, and Marlene Mandel, the no-nonsense copy chief who treasured every word. They made me more numerate and literate, respectively.
Covering A New Era In American Politics

Nov 12, 2024 | forbes.com | Randall Lane

This story appears in the December/January 2025 issue of Forbes Magazine. SubscribeI found myself in Washington, D.C., the day after the presidential election was called, and happened to catch Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy, a physician-turned-pragmatist, who summed up the results perfectly: The country is in a mood to break some eggs, he said, and Donald Trump “will take a carton of eggs and slam ’em upside down.”Big change is coming, quickly, and that means big risks—and big opportunities.
Forbes presents publisher worries about AI - Editor and Publisher

Aug 19, 2024 | editorandpublisher.com | Randall Lane |Gretchen A. Peck

In the tech world, innovation moves fast, especially in the latest burgeoning field of artificial intelligence (AI). The introduction of dozens of generative AI tools in the past two years has news media publishers feeling dizzy with the dilemma of whether and how to leverage these tools themselves and how to protect their copyrighted products.
Forbes 50 Over 50: A Movement For Women

Jul 31, 2024 | forbes.com | Randall Lane

This story appears in the August/September 2024 issue of Forbes Magazine. SubscribeNow in its fourth year, the Forbes 50 Over 50 franchise makes people think differently—and creates impact. By Randall Lane, Forbes StaffForbes journalism can create impact in several ways. A story that inspires or reveals. A franchise, like Forbes Billionaires, that updates who owns what in the world. The trickiest feat: a movement that makes people think differently about some aspect of society.
Why Perplexity’s Cynical Theft Represents Everything That Could Go Wrong With AI

Jun 11, 2024 | forbes.com | Randall Lane

Two months ago, Forbes co-hosted the Imagination in Action event at MIT that brought together more than 2,000 people interested in the future of AI, with few in the bustling crowd attracting more interest than Aravind Srinivas and his startup Perplexity AI, a search engine that summarizes its recommendations. “The whole AI is basically running on exponential time,” he said, awkwardly standing on the stage for this panel, until he was instructed to sit.
Honoring Our Creative Icon, Forbes Videographer Bernard Osei

May 15, 2024 | forbes.com | Randall Lane

Martin Luther King Jr., who died too young, once presciently reframed his goals for his time on earth: “It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.” Bernard Osei, who for the past nine years dazzled at Forbes through video direction, product development and even the occasional photograph, instinctively grasped that: He did life very, very well. We lost Bern in April at age 32, as he was en route from Bali to South Korea on a vacation. Yes, even in death, he did life well.
The Best Of The Best: Why We Are Expanding Forbes’ Professional Rankings

Apr 1, 2024 | forbes.com | Randall Lane

This story appears in the April/May 2024 issue of Forbes Magazine. SubscribeFor over a century, Forbes’ journalism has mixed honest reporting with a transparent point of view as the champion of entrepreneurial capitalism. That formula creates trust, as borne out by independent surveys, which in turn empowers ever-better journalism. It’s why Forbes lists resonate. Over the past few years, we’ve expanded this model to tackle professional rankings.
How Forbes Delivers Journalism You Can Trust

Feb 8, 2024 | forbes.com | Randall Lane

This story appears in the December/January 2024 issue of Forbes Magazine. SubscribeFor more than a century, hundreds of thousands of people each year have paid for Forbes in its printed form. That’s because the magazine delivers things that justify the expenditure: great journalism, deliberately assigned, reported and edited, then carefully curated and beautifully presented. Journalism’s magazine model became synonymous with print because until recently, that was the best technology to deliver it.