Shawn Tully Joined Fortune Magazine in 1979 – and he's still going strong!

Before AI, before social media, before the dot-com boom…there was Shawn Tully. Nearly 50 years later, there’s still Shawn Tully — Fortune’s Senior Editor-at-Large, still cranking out thought-provoking stories about the world’s most powerful business leaders. On this episode of Press Profiles, Shawn reflects on five decades of reporting, from covering European business in Paris to flying on Donald Trump’s private plane, to spending hours inside CEOs’ offices chasing the perfect anecdote. He shares why storytelling matters as much as spreadsheets, how trust is built over decades, and why the best business journalism reads like narrative — not news copy. Along the way, we hear about tennis with Bobby Riggs, inventing the term “HENRYs,” and what motivates him to “keep cranking” after all these years.