Rob Norton

Rob Norton

Rob Norton is a freelance writer, editor and consultant in New York, and a contributing editor for strategy+business and Corporate Board Member magazines. From 1984 to 2000 Rob worked at FORTUNE magazine, first as a reporter/researcher, then as senior reporter, associate editor, senior editor, assistant managing editor, and executive editor. He wrote dozens of feature stories, including several cover stories, as well as a biweekly column on economics and public policy from 1994 to 2000. Rob directed FORTUNE’s economics coverage from 1995 to 2000, and redesigned and edited the magazine’s front-of-the-book section. Earlier, he was a staff writer at the American Banker newspaper and an economics correspondent at U.S. News & World Report.

Rob’s freelance work has appeared in Fortune, Business 2.0, The Washington Post, strategy+business, Corporate Board Member, The Milken Institute Review, the Journal of Economic Literature and The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. He is the editor of CFO Thought Leaders: Advancing the Frontiers of Finance (2005), co-author of Content Critical: Gaining Competitive Advantage Through High Quality Web Content (2001) and The Web Content Style Guide: An Essential Reference for Online Writers, Editors and Managers (2001). Rob studied mathematics at the University of Maryland, accounting and business administration at CUNY’s Baruch College, and liberal arts at SUNY Binghamton.