[caption id="attachment_171661" align="alignright" width="150"] Emily Smith[/caption] Wild Sky Media has hired Emily Smith as its new CEO. Smith previously served as the company's SVP of content and marketing at Wild Sky Media, a role which Johanna Torres, formerly VP of content and editorial development, will step into. While serving as SVP of content and marketing, Smith guided Wild Sky Media—a holding company owned by private equity firm Centre Lane Partners—through a transitional period, which included the acquisitions of CafeMom, Little Things, Revelist, and MamásLatinas from the now-defunct RockYou Media, the social media game publisher-turned digital media company, which declared bankruptcy earlier this year. Before joining Wild Sky Media, Smith served as chief growth officer and president of media at Brit + Co; additionally, she has held leadership positions at Tribune Publishing Company and The Walt Disney Company. Prior to its acquisition by RockYou and then Wild Sky, Torres was the founding editor-in-chief of MamásLatinas, which she helped launch in 2011. Here are the rest of this week's people on the move... [caption id="attachment_171673" align="alignright" width="150"] Zeynep Tufecki[/caption] Trend spotter Zeynep Tufecki is joining The Atlantic as a contributing writer. Tufecki also serves in academic posts as an associate professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library Science, and a faculty associate at the... Continue reading at 'Folio Magazine'
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The In Touch Weekly publisher is the latest to bring GumGum's image-overlaying ad tech to the U.S. market. The post Bauer Media Expands GumGum Partnership appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2016-05-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Folio:'s Top Women in Media to take center stage June 9th. The post Celebrating the Accomplishments of Female Magazine-Media Pros appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2016-05-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Beginning June 1, Regnery Publishing will bring its sales operation in-house, having been with Perseus Distribution. Moving forward, Perseus will continue to handle warehousing and all other distribution functions for Regnery. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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London-based independent Elliott & Thompson is publishing Worth Dying For: The Power and Politics of Flags by Tim Marshall, former diplomatic editor of Sky News. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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After something of a slow start when the exhibition hall opened at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, May 11, book-buyer traffic at the 2016 BookExpo America—which ran through Friday, May 13, at Chicago’s McCormick Place—picked up noticeably on Thursday, May 12. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In answering whether the NFL would allow betting in Las Vegas should the Oakland Raiders relocate to Las Vegas, the director of the largest sports book operation on The Strip may have created the town’s new catchphrase.“You come to Vegas, you take Vegas the way Vegas is,” said MGM Resorts’ Jay... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2016-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Orion publishing director Kate Mills is to join HarperCollins in the newly created role of publishing director of HQ. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Remember the days when getting an author in the New York Times, on the Today show, Oprah, or, for us old-timers, Carson practically guaranteed a spot on the bestseller list? Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Justin Smith says social network makes far more money from ads in its news feed than news organisations do from linked trafficNewspapers, magazines and other publishers are “feeding on the scraps” of Facebook’s multibillion-dollar ad business despite playing a central role in keeping the social... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2016-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Orion Fiction has acquired a tale of "sex, envy and betrayal in the suburbs" in The People at Number 9 by Felicity Everett. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kelly McCracken, formerly director of shared services at Franciscan Media, has been appointed president of the Catholic publishing house. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Animals in comics can be wild creatures, loyal pets, test subjects, and so much more. These 10 comics reflect the complicated relationship that exists between people and the animal world. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Danaerys and Melisandre are among the stars from the HBO series to be turned into figuresWith its penchant for flaying, beheading and generally dying in any way other than peacefully in your sleep, Game of Thrones is an unlikely source of spin-off toy merchandise.And yet if adults can while away... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2016-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kathryn Schulz and Emily Nussbaum win for Feature Writing and Criticism, respectively. The post The New Yorker Wins Two Pulitzers in a First for Magazine Media appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2016-04-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Changes in technology like ad blocking, and the dominance of platforms like Facebook leave many publishers unsure of how they will make money. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2016-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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When Partners closed its wholesale arms in Holt, Mich., and Renton, Wash., it also meant the dissolution of the company's distribution operation. Now those clients have the option to move to Midpoint. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Gollancz has acquired world rights to a science-fiction/crime crossover novel—with a love story at its core—and two further books from first-time novelist Sam Peter. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-04-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amanda Prowse, whose A Mother’s Story was named Sainsbury’s Entertainment E-Book of the Year 2015, has signed a threebook deal with Amazon Publishing imprint Lake Union Publishing. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-04-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Of the many talking points Tuesday at Facebook's F8 conference, two stood out because of their potential ramifications: the full rollout of Instant Articles and Facebook Live opening up to developers. We did a quick poll of tech players to gain insight into whether media companies should fear... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2016-04-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) is pushing back against Hachette CEO Arnaud Nourry's suggestion that proposed "vast exceptions to copyright law for libraries," would devastate European publishers. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-04-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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