Case Study: Fast Company streamlines deadline management and newsroom accountability with Airtable

Fast Company Redefines Deadline Management and Accountability

Fast Company, the media and entertainment publication, needed a better way to manage editorial deadlines, assignments, and cross-team visibility in its fast-paced newsroom. Before using Airtable, April Mokwa and her team relied on printed spreadsheets and manual updates, making it hard to quickly answer questions about what was being published, who was writing it, and whether assets like art were ready.

With Airtable, Fast Company centralized editorial planning in one shared workspace, using filtered views, collaborator tags, and notes to keep writers, editors, social, video, and newsletter teams aligned. Airtable improved transparency and accountability, reduced back-and-forth, and helped prevent missed deadlines; April said the team now uses it multiple times a day and no longer has to interrupt colleagues to find information.

Fast Company

April Mokwa

Executive Managing Editor