[caption id="attachment_126319" align="alignright" width="150"] Linda Thomas Brooks[/caption] Just two months after concluding her four-year term as president and CEO of MPA, The Association of Magazine Media, Linda Thomas Brooks is taking on a new role: interim managing director of Connectiv, the division of the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) that represents the B2B side of the media industry. Filling a vacancy left by the departure of former managing director Michael Marchesano—who stepped down in January after six years to take over as president of analytics advisory firm Outsell, Inc.—Connectiv says Brooks will lead day-to-day operations, identify potential acquisition targets and oversee the Jesse H. Neal Awards, its flagship awards program honoring business journalism, as well as the annual three-day Connectiv Executive Summit. After several years on the agency side of the industry, including as managing director of GM Mediaworks and president of the Martin Agency's Ingenuity Media Group, Brooks joined the MPA at the start of 2016, navigating the association through a period of unprecedented consolidation among its largest members and, in outreach to advertisers, emphasizing the scale and devotion of consumer magazines' audiences across the totality of their channels: print, digital, video and social media. She stepped down as president and CEO at the end of last year, after the MPA's board of directors voted to concentrate the association's... Continue reading at 'Folio Magazine'
[ Folio Magazine | 2020-03-03 22:07:16 UTC ]
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The move brings the total number of countries where the Nook and Nook store are available to 32. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The fact a delegation is visiting the UK over the hostile response to the Guardian's reporting of the Snowden leaks, as well as the royal charter, should sound alarm bellsThis week, the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers has dispatched a delegation of editors and publishers from... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-01-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Time Inc. CEO Joe Ripp continues to fill out his leadership ranks as he prepares to spin off the publishing company from Time Warner later this year into a public entity. Today, he named Colin Bodell as evp and chief technology officer, a newly created role at Time Inc. Bodell will be charged... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2014-01-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Florence Ladd returned an advance and decided to go it alone for her second novel, "The Spirit of Josephine: A Family Reunion in Paris." Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In less than a decade the American Booksellers Association’s Winter Institute (Wi) has arguably become the second-most important bookseller gathering in the U.S., after BookExpo America. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A weekly newspaper is about to be published without having an office, reports HoldTheFrontPage. The Hemel Hempstead Gazette, having left its headquarters, will operate in future largely through computer screens.Editor John Francis tells me there will be weekly face-to-face meetings of the half... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling says she is working on a play about Harry's early life, expected to hit British theaters within the next two years. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-12-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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After swinging the ax on about 75 employees Thursday — several of them top executives in the advertising group — Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia has promoted Amy Wilkins to head of advertising, sales and marketing, the company said Friday.Ms. Wilkins, the publisher of Martha Stewart Weddings,... Continue reading at Crains New York
[ Crains New York | 2013-12-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In an unexpected move, Phaidon, a publisher best known for its lavishly produced art books, has hired Judith Regan to oversee a new division at the company called Regan Arts. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-12-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Folio Prize is to launch a two-day fiction festival in March just ahead of the announcement... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-12-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Company Pictures have optioned the TV rights to William McIlvanney's Laidlaw trilogy. Lisa... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Professor Stefan Buczacki has been presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Garden... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Popular authors including George R R Martin, Neil Gaiman, Kate Atkinson and David Nicholls are... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hearst Magazines named Jane Francisco the editor-in-chief of Good Housekeeping magazine, the company said Monday, succeeding longtime editor Rosemary Ellis. Ms. Francisco is editor-in-chief of Chatelaine, a women's lifestyle magazine based in Canada. She begins her new job Dec. 2.Ms. Ellis,... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2013-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Microsoft is actively looking for a new CEO to replace Steve Ballmer, and one of the potential candidates is Stephen Elop. In an interesting story published earlier today, Bloomberg, citing several unnamed sources, claims that the former boss of Nokia would introduce sweeping changes to... Continue reading at Betanews
[ Betanews | 2013-11-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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American author Claire Vaye Watkins has won the Dylan Thomas Prize with Battleborn, a collection... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Author Neil Gaiman is revealed as the final short story author of the Doctor Who stories. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2013-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BlackBerry has abandoned plans to sell itself and has instead found about $1 billion in new funds that it will use to try to turn its business around. The company is also planning far–reaching changes to management and will remove both its CEO Thorsten Heins and some directors. Heins is replaced... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2013-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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PRH's Spanish-language publishing division Random House Mondadori has been renamed Penguin... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia's choice of former metals-industry executive Daniel Dienst to lead the company meant going outside the media business for a manager with operational experience -- one who can hopefully reshape the unprofitable company.Mr. Dienst, the former CEO of scrap-metal... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2013-10-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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