Forbes.com Hires Tunku Varadarajan to Re-Launch Opinions Channel

Veteran Journalist Expands the Channel with Impressive New Line-Up
of Columnists
NEW YORK--(Business Wire)--
Forbes.com (www.forbes.com), home page for the world's business
leaders, today announced that Tunku Varadarajan has joined the Company
as Opinions Channel Editor, reporting to Forbes.com Managing Editor
Carl Lavin. As his first order of business, Varadarajan unveiled today
a re-launch of the Opinions Channel (www.forbes.com/opinions), which
has been expanded with the addition of several new columns.

Under Varadarajan, the Opinions Channel has been restructured to
include four main topic categories: Business and Economics, Foreign
Affairs and Defense, Culture and Society, and Politics. Sixteen new
columnists, chosen for their expertise in a particular field as well
as their provocative ideas, will be writing weekly columns for the
channel, starting today.

Among the sixteen are Reihan Salam, acclaimed author at the
forefront of a new breed of twenty-something Conservatives, who will
write about life after Bush in "Grand New Party" on Mondays; Brian
Wesbury and Bob Stein, two counter-intuitive economists, who will look
at the U.S. economy in "Money"; and Richard Epstein, law professor at
the University of Chicago and fellow of the Hoover Institution, will
express himself in "The Libertarian" on Tuesdays; Thomas Cooley, Dean
of the Stern Business School at NYU, who will offer weekly economic
insight in "Capital"; and Dan Gerstein, a former speechwriter in
Washington, who will address politics from a Democratic Perspective in
"Dangerous Thoughts" on Wednesdays; Nouriel Roubini, economist from
the Stern Business School at NYU, who will tell us why he thinks the
economy is going downhill and what we can do to stop it in "Doctor
Doom"; Claudia Rosett, who has uncovered corruption in the United
Nations, will write about foreign affairs in "Freedom's Edge"; and the
U.K.'s amusing Quentin Letts will offer a quirky take on Her Majesty's
realm in "Blighty", on Thursdays; and Peter Robinson, a former Reagan
White House speechwriter and now a fellow at the Hoover Institution,
will pen the Republican "Man Friday" column.

In addition to these new columns, the Opinions Channel will run
book reviews every Monday and Thursday on subjects ranging from the
political economy to the latest fiction; as well as daily essays and
commentaries by high profile contributors. And every Tuesday, starting
today, the channel will feature a public figure offering his or her
five favorites in a particular category.

Forbes.com Editor Paul Maidment's weekly video "Notes on the News"
about international politics and business, as well as Forbes magazine
Publisher Rich Karlgaards's daily blog "Digital Rules" about
technology, entrepreneurship, regional economic development and the
future of business will continue to run, with the introduction of
Karlgaard's new video blog "Talk Back" discussing the business world.

For a detailed description of all the new contributors, please
visit: http://www.forbes.com/opinions/2008/09/15/
columns-contributors-reviews-oped-cx_tv_0915varadarajan.html/. (Due to
its length, this URL may need to be copied/pasted into your Internet
browser's address field. Remove the extra space if one exists.)

Varadarajan most recently served as a contributing editor at the
Financial Times, where he wrote op-eds, arts and culture essays and
book reviews. Prior to that, he spent seven years at the Wall Street
Journal, most recently as Assistant Managing Editor. During his tenure
there, he also served as the Editorial Features/Op-Ed editor, Chief
Television and Media Critic, OpinionJournal.com Columnist and Senior
Editorial Page Writer. Previously, he worked as an Editorial Writer
for The Times of London, as well as its Bureau Chief in both Madrid
and New York City. He currently serves as a Clinical Professor of
Business at the New York University Stern School of Business and a
Research Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He holds
a Bachelor of Arts degree in Law from Oxford University.

"We couldn't be happier to welcome Tunku aboard," said Paul
Maidment, Editor of Forbes.com. "His vast experience as both an op-ed
writer and editor, wide-ranging, thoughtful mind and deep grounding in
issues affecting business leaders in America and around the world will
make our Opinions Channel an even more substantial platform for the
voice and spirited agenda-setting debate that our readers have come to
expect from Forbes.com."

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