Breaking Out of the Friend Group and Forming a Family
Rachel Schallom and Brent Lobdell dated on and off for several years, and then there was a decision to change the dynamic.
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By Nina Reyes
June 4, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
You might say that Rachel Schallom and Brent Lobdell met the old-fashioned way: Her best friend had a crush on his best friend, and so the two were introduced as a means of facilitating an entirely different romance. But when it came to the course of their own relationship, they broke with convention.
To begin with, they skipped the customary lead-up to a serious connection, after meeting at the University of Missouri in 2009 and spending the next seven years seeing each other on and off, almost always in a larger friend group.
Fortune Announces New Digital Editor Rachel Schallom
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NEW YORK, Feb. 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Yesterday evening, Editor-In-Chief Clifton Leaf announced that Rachel Schallom will be FORTUNE s new Digital Editor, effective February 19. Schallom has been FORTUNE s Deputy Digital Editor since September 2019.
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In an internal memo to staff, Leaf wrote, As everyone at FORTUNE knows, Rachel has been an outstanding deputy for the past 17 months, working closely with Andrew Nusca to shepherd the site through an endlessly busy news cycle and one of the most challenging periods for the world in memory. Through it all, Rachel has led fearlessly, tirelessly, humanely, and wisely helping our readers make sense of the confusion around us.
"As anyone who has attempted to be a changemaker in a storied workplace knows, it s easier to build what you want from the ground up than attempt to change the processes, priorities, and personnel in an existing structure."