Alyson Shontell

Alyson Shontell joined Fortune in October 2021 as Editor-in-Chief and Chief Content Officer. In this role, she oversees content across all of Fortune’s platforms, including the magazine, website, newsletters, executive conferences, videos, and podcasts.

She previously served as Editor-in-Chief of Business Insider, where she joined in 2008 as the company’s sixth employee. Shontell started as a sales planner before joining the editorial team in 2010. She became a startup reporter and was first to cover some of today’s largest tech companies, including Pinterest, Tinder, Instagram, Uber, and Snapchat. She rose to become a senior correspondent, then executive editor. She was appointed editor-in-chief in 2016 and became the youngest and only woman to run a global business publication. Under her leadership, the business division grew to hundreds of millions of monthly readers.

Shontell was the host of Business Insider’s conferences and launched a podcast where she interviewed influencers about their career paths. She has appeared on major media outlets and has interviewed a range of industry titans, including top Fortune 500 CEOs, politicians, and star athletes.

She is a judge for the prestigious Gerald Loeb Awards in business journalism and serves on the Syracuse University Newhouse School of Public Communications Dean Advisory Board. Since joining Fortune’s 95-year-old newsroom as the first woman and youngest editor-in-chief, the website’s readership has grown by more than six times and its newsroom has won numerous awards for its rigorous journalism.

Shontell graduated from Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications, where she majored in psychology and advertising.