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Meredith Whitney and the WWE on video
August 6, 2008: 3:12 PM ETFortune's current cover story on Meredith Whitney, "The woman who called Wall Street's meltdown," is getting tons of buzz. Yesterday, I clued you in to background on Whitney, the Oppenheimer analyst who shatters many a stereotype.
Here's another type she is not: the powerful woman with househusband. We once surveyed participants of Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit and found that one-third had husbands who didn't work. Not Whitney, who is wed to John Layfield, known to pro wrestling fans as JBL. Click here to see "Mr. Whitney," as they jokingly labeled Layfield on Monday night's WWE Raw, hawking the new issue of Fortune on the show. And click here to see another video, this one behind the scenes with the power couple.
Fortune and WWE. Yep, we too are defying the stodgy business-magazine stereotype. "A whole 'nother demographic," as my boss, managing editor Andy Serwer, likes to say.
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Meredith Whitney: From Fortune to CNBC to WWE
Did you see WWE Raw Monday night? I did. First time ever. Why? (Good question!) Because Fortune was front and center. Big John Bradshaw Layfield, known as JBL to pro wrestling fans, was hawking our new issue for one reason: His wife, Meredith Whitney, is on the cover.
Whitney, in case you don't know, is Wall Street's force of nature. The Oppenheimer analyst has recently knocked billions off the stock-market capitalizations MORE
Patricia Sellers - Aug 5, 2008 1:21 PM ET
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Fortune senior editor at large Pattie Sellers has written some of Fortune's most talked-about cover stories, including "Marissa Mayer: Ready to Rumble at Yahoo," "Oprah's Next Act," "Can Meg Whitman Save California?" "The $100 Billion Woman" (Melinda Gates), and "Remodeling Martha" (Martha Stewart). She has helped oversee Fortune's "Most Powerful Women in Business" package every year since its launch in 1998. Pattie is Executive Director of the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, the preeminent gathering of women leaders in business and beyond. She oversees MPW programs that enable women leaders to extend their influence and empower the next generation—such as Fortune MPW Entrepreneurs and the Fortune-U.S. State Department Global Women Leaders Mentoring Partnership. Beyond her Fortune duties, she is also developing Live Content across Time Inc. Pattie grew up in Allentown, PA, graduated from the University of Virginia, and started at Fortune in 1984. Her blog, Postcards, is about how power players lead, manage others, and navigate their careers.
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