Questex Names New CFO, VF Editor Joins Fast Company | People on the Move

On Tuesday the business information company Questex announced Patrick Nohilly as its new chief financial officer, to work out of its New York headquarters. Nohilly succeeds Debra Mason, who left in September to take on the CFO role at SourceMedia. Nohilly most recently served as president and CFO at Messe Frankfurt North America, the U.S. subsidiary of the global trade fair company. His experience encompasses financial oversight, mergers and acquisitions, operations, and centralized services; he has completed over 20 strategic acquisitions. “Pat is a transformational executive," said Questex CEO Paul Miller. "His extensive financial and operational expertise makes him a huge asset for Questex. We are highly acquisitive and now with Pat on board we have the ability to bolster our organic growth through M&A to add scale, capabilities and resources.” [caption id="attachment_172909" align="alignright" width="150"] Benjamin Landy[/caption] In a staff memo, Fast Company editor-in-chief Stephanie Mehta announced the hiring of Vanity Fair's Benjamin Landy as executive editor, digital, effective November 11. A former colleague of Mehta's, Landy spent the last four years at VF, first as senior editor of "The Hive" and most recently as deputy editor. Nylon's new editor-in-chief, Alyssa Vingan Klein, who joined in August from Fasionista.com, is building out her team with the hires of Lauren McCarthy as executive editor and Maria Bobila as fashion editor. McCarthy brings over... Continue reading at 'Folio Magazine'

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Caroline Raphael joins PRH UK

BBC Radio 4’s former commissioning editor Caroline Raphael is to join Penguin Random House UK. Raphael will take on the role of editorial director, audio, reporting to audio publisher Videl Bar-Kar. She will lead Penguin Random House UK’s audio editorial and production team and help grow its... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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7 Ways to Get People to Share Your Snapchat Messages, Even Ads

Snapchat has been a lot more ad friendly of late. It still lacks some features brands love—giving users an easy way to follow their accounts and like their content, for instance—but it finally implemented the ability to share. Sharing is limited to the Discover section, where 12 digital... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2015-05-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Phyllis Tickle, Founding Religion Editor of Publishers Weekly, Is Writing Her Final Chapter

The religion authority, author, and pioneer in the coverage of spirituality and religion publishing has been diagnosed with inoperable stage 4 lung cancer. Still, she has book projects in the works and no plans to abandon them. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BEA 2015: Big Names from a Little Press

Last year, the South Dakota Historical Society Press gave away blads and tote bags promoting its fall release, "Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography of Laura Ingalls Wilder" by Pamela Smith Hill, but no one predicted the success that would come. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ex-BBC executive behind Little Britain joins Penguin Random House UK

Caroline Raphael takes up role as head of audio operations at world’s biggest book publisherFormer BBC radio executive Caroline Raphael, who was responsible for Little Britain, The League of Gentlemen and Cabin Pressure, is to join the world’s biggest book publisher as head of audio operations... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2015-05-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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How The Onion Gets People to Read Sponsored Content: Make Fun of It

About a month ago, The Onion posted an article to its Facebook page with the headline, "Complete Idiot Forgot to Shave Area Between Nose and Mouth." The complete idiot, you might have guessed, sports a mustache. The Facebook post has more than 13,000 "likes," nearly 2,200 shares and reams of... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2015-05-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Coleman appointed as Pan Mac commissioning editor

Pan Macmillan has appointed Jamie Coleman as commissioning editor on its non-fiction team, as well as making a number of other appointments and promotions. Coleman, who will publish humour and gift titles for the Boxtree list, joins from Greene & Heaton literary agency, where he started in... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Garnons-Williams moves to 4th Estate

HarperCollins has appointed Helen Garnons-Williams as publishing director of 4th Estate, moving from her role as publishing director at Bloomsbury. Meanwhile, at Bloomsbury, Alexa von Hirschberg has been promoted from commissioning editor to senior fiction editor. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Puffin editor Lewis-Oakes wins KSW Prize

Children’s book editor Rebecca Lewis-Oakes has been named as the winner of the 10th Kim Scott Walwyn Prize.  Lewis-Oakes, an editor at Puffin, was one of the first people to commission a YouTube star, before vloggers became the rage, prize organisers said.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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USA Today Could End Daily Print Edition in 'Five or Six Years,' Editor-in-Chief Says

USA Today could stop publishing a daily print newspaper as soon as in the next "five or six years," the paper's editor-in-chief, David Callaway, said in response to a question during an Internet Week New York panel Wednesday.To be sure, a print product of some kind will likely continue for "the... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2015-05-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bookseller McKenna Jordan Joins Minotaur as Consultant

St. Martin's imprint Minotaur Books has hired McKenna Jordan, owner of Murder By the Book in Houston, Tex., as a dedicated outside publishing consultant. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kik joins Facebook in hunt for more publisher, brand deals

In the latest land grab for consumers’ time on platforms, Kik is stepping up efforts to court brands and media companies. The messaging app popular with millennials hired ad vet Josh Jacobs to head a new division, Kik Services, with an eye to adding games and commerce services and expand... Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2015-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Gail Gonzales Named V-P, Associate Publisher at Rodale

Gonzales, currently director of integrated marketing at Simon & Schuster, has been been appointed v-p, associate publisher, trade books at Rodale, effective June 15. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Lam's Dark Circus moves to Pan

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[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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IWM moves to 'voluntary donation' scheme

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[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Philip Ruppel Named Phaidon COO

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[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Media's Latest In-Demand Job: Platforms Editor

Media companies increasingly want to publish their articles, videos and graphics directly to social networks and mobile apps like Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat. Call it modern syndication.Facebook, for instance, is talking with media companies about publishing articles within the social... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2015-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Thomas moves to Orion Children’s

Helen Thomas will this July join Orion Children’s Books as editorial director.   Thomas, who is currently fiction editorial director at Scholastic, will acquire titles across the Orion Children’s and Indigo YA lists, and will report to m.d. and publisher Fiona Kennedy.   “We’re delighted to... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Former Ace Exec Named President & CEO of Follett

The first president and CEO of Follett Corporation from outside the Follett family in its more than 140-year history is leaving and being replaced by board member Ray Griffith. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Charlie Hebdo editors: 'We are not naive'

At a panel convened in New York to discuss the French magazine’s award from PEN for courage, its editors say it is power they mean to provoke, not religion“The thing that surprised me the most,” Charlie Hebdo’s editor-in-chief Gérard Biard told an audience on Tuesday morning, “was the bells of... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2015-05-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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