Series IV. Personnel and Contributors Files, 1951-1977, inclusive
Extent
Scope and Contents
Personnel and Contributors files relate to Fortune staff, freelance writers, and sources who contributed to Fortune. The records do not include any official personnel records or reviews. Correspondence within the series notes that Fortune kept its own personnel files, but it is unclear if these records were held by a human resources department or the managing editor's office.
Individual files contain information about what a specific person wrote or contributed to Fortune and appear to served for reference rather than as an official personnel file. While much of the material within the series appears to have been sent to managing editors, some items were sent to other staff who worked at Fortune. Materials in the series include reports on Fortune's forecasting capabilities, requests for payment, drafts of articles, raw reports, and correspondence. The correspondence discuss story ideas, research for articles, comments on articles, and internal issues within Fortune.
Arrangement
Organized alphabetically.