Brooklyn, New York, United States
Diana Ransom is an award-winning journalist, who has covered the intersection of policy and business for a variety of outlets including The Wall Street Journal, the New York Daily News, Fast Company, Entrepreneur, and others. She was most recently Executive Editor at Inc. Magazine, where she managed, wrote and edited the site's special reports and daily news stories. She tended to cover a diverse array of topics—from young entrepreneurs and startups to venture capital and politics. She has served as the deputy editor of Entrepreneur.com, the assistant business editor for the New York Daily News and as a reporter for SmartMoney.com, where she received a Deadline Club award for deadline reporting for her story "The 70% Discount on Goldman's $500M Gift." She's also worked for The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company magazine and The Christian Science Monitor. Ransom received a master’s degree in business and economic reporting from New York University and an undergraduate business degree from George Mason University. She now teaches feature writing at NYU.
Teach writing and reporting II, a feature writing class in the Business & Economic Reporting graduate program at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute
Manage annual editorial initiatives like Inc.’s 5000 coverage online. Manage the calendar and plan features around timely events and news. Edit features and columnists, and manage a team of staffers. Produce and conduct live chats and video interviews regularly.
Envisioned and executed on long-term packages and sponsorships. Managed four staffers; directly oversaw special reports, contributors and the magazine upload. Worked with a stable of contributors and feature writers. Grew YoungEntrepreneur to more than one million monthly page views (from 200k) and 400,000 Facebook followers. Produced video, spoke at conferences and wrote a regular column for Entrepreneur's Startups magazine.