Clint Smith is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America, which debuted at #1 on The New York Times bestseller list and won a National Book Critics Circle award. His new book, Above Ground, is a return to … The... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Millions | 2023-04-07 10:00:00 UTC ]
A staff writer at The Atlantic since 2016, Gilbert is a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Atlantic | 2022-05-10 13:16:13 UTC ]
[caption id="attachment_176505" align="alignright" width="150"] Kate Kelly Smith[/caption] Shelter magazines veteran Kate Kelly Smith has been appointed executive VP and managing director of Luxe Interiors + Design and chief sales officer for parent company Sandow's design media brands. The... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2020-01-23 20:20:03 UTC ]
[caption id="attachment_175627" align="alignright" width="150"] Kristen O'Hara[/caption] Hearst Magazines has named Kristen O’Hara senior vice president and chief business officer, a new position created as part of a succession plan for longtime president, marketing and publishing director,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2019-12-19 19:09:52 UTC ]
[caption id="attachment_175123" align="alignright" width="150"] Roula Khalaf[/caption] The Financial Times announced Roula Khalaf as its next editor, making her the first female top editor at the FT in its 131-year history. A 24-year veteran of the FT, Khalaf most recently served as deputy... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2019-11-14 20:49:51 UTC ]
[caption id="attachment_170049" align="alignright" width="150"] Alisa Leonard[/caption] The Atlantic expanded its marketing and editorial teams this week with three new hires. Alisa Leonard is taking on the role of head of global marketing and will be tasked with leading the brand’s marketing... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2019-08-22 14:30:23 UTC ]
Between January and May this year, approximately 3,000 people working in the news industry were laid off or offered a buyout. That’s according to figures compiled by Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc.—a Chicago-based firm that helps workers find new employment—and reported yesterday in a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Columbia Journalism Review | 2019-07-02 12:07:17 UTC ]
[caption id="attachment_160867" align="alignright" width="150"] Josh London[/caption] Reuters named Josh London as its new chief marketing officer, effective immediately. Most recently the CMO at IDG Communications, London will now be responsible for all aspects of marketing at the company,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2019-06-26 15:38:09 UTC ]
Friends, Romans, readers of great books: The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books has landed on Coachella weekend and there will be too much do in El Lay this weekend beyond the return of “Game of Thrones.” I’m Carolina A. Miranda, staff writer at The Times, with your weekly dose of cultural... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2019-04-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Nicholas Schmidle, a staff writer at the New Yorker, is to draw on four years of reporting on Richard Branson’s space tourism company Virgin Galactic for a new book about the venture, to be published by Hutchinson. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-03-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hello! I’m books editor Carolyn Kellogg with this week’s books newsletter from the L.A. Times. THE BIG STORY Although Susan Orlean is a staff writer for the New Yorker, she lives in Los Angeles part-time, and for the last six years has been writing a book that investigates a mystery many of us... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2018-10-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
[caption id="attachment_133047" align="alignright" width="150"] Kate Lewis[/caption] Newly appointed president of Hearst Magazines Troy Young and Hearst president and CEO Steven R. Swartz announced today that Kate Lewis will take on the role of chief content officer at Hearst Magazines, a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2018-08-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
With 357K print copies sold in a single week, 'A Higher Loyalty' by James Comey is #1 in the country. Meanwhile, 'New Yorker' staff writer and Pulitzer Prize–winning author Lawrence Wright debuts at #19 with 'God Save Texas,' and more in this week's bestseller news. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hip-hop upends the Pulitzer Prize and a pair of musicians take to the stage in dresses made out of speakers. I’m Carolina A. Miranda, staff writer at the Los Angeles Times, with the week’s rocking culture news (and essential cumbia remixes): ESSENTIAL IMAGE The 2018 winner of the Pulitzer Prize... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2018-04-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
On this week’s episode of my podcast, I Have to Ask, I spoke with David Remnick, the editor of the New Yorker. Remnick began editing the magazine in 1998; before then, he was a staff writer for the magazine and a Moscow correspondent for the Washington Post. His coverage of the fall of communism... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2017-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
At the inaugural South by South Lawn: A White House Festival of Ideas, Art and Action on Monday, Slack co-founder Stewart Butterfield explained that it's easier to implement diversity in hiring practices when companies are small, and by doing so, companies are more likely to be aware of a... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2016-10-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
At the inaugural South by South Lawn: A White House Festival of Ideas, Art and Action on Monday, Slack co-founder Stewart Butterfield explained that it's easier to implement diversity in hiring practices when companies are small, and by doing so, companies are more likely to be aware of a... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2016-10-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
The novelist and the 'New Yorker' staff writer take home the prizes for fiction and biography respectively at the centennial awards ceremony. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
As the nation's geeks and nerds pack away their spandex and cardboard cosplay costumes (until October's New York Comic-Con of course) staff writer and office comic book aficionado Sam Thielman explains who should be TV's next smash hit superheroes. Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2013-07-25 00:00:00 UTC ]