Cosmopolitan's New Editor Is Bringing Her Health and Digital Know-How to Hearst

Specs Who Michele Promaulayko  Current gig Editor in chief of Cosmopolitan and editorial director of Seventeen Previous gig Editor in chief, Yahoo Health Twitter @michprom Age 46 Adweek: Right around the time that you were named editor of Cosmopolitan, E! began filming a docuseries about the magazine, So Cosmo [premiering Feb. 8]. What was it like getting this huge job and then immediately being on a reality show?  Michele Promaulayko: It was next-level insane. It was kind of just a trial by fire, you just get thrown in. That's Cosmo—everything's done in big fashion—but it was kind of crazy. Did you know that you were going to be part of a TV show when you signed on to become editor? Well, it's funny … Yes and no. Yes, in the sense that I knew about it from having read about it, but it wasn't something that factored largely into the conversation. So it was a little head-spinning, but it's such a great opportunity for our brand and also for the brands that work with us. And, I mean, what brand wouldn't die to have this? But it's a lot in your first eight weeks. It's not like they were following me around all the time—I'm peripheral [to the story]—but they were here. You recently spent a year and a half at Yahoo. How does that experience factor into what you're doing at Cosmo, where the digital and print sides are mostly separate? One of the things that we're doing is trying to create a little bit more fluidity between the two sides. They've been siloed... Continue reading at 'AdWeek'

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Apple Brings Conde Nast Aboard the Subscription Bandwagon, Starting With the New Yorker [MediaMemo]

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Media Decoder: Random House Buys Digital Agency

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