The board of directors at Ebony has removed CEO Willard Jackson, the magazine said Sunday, citing an ongoing independent investigation into "a number of transactions that Jackson led." A co-founder and vice chairman of Clear View Group (CVG), the private equity firm that acquired Ebony from Johnson Publishing in 2016, Jackson had been serving as Ebony's chairman and CEO since 2018. The board's decision, however, was made under newly elected chairman Jacob Walthour, the co-founder and CEO of Blueprint Capital Advisors, which recently became senior lender to Ebony Media Holdings after taking over Parkview Capital Credit, the investment management firm that had financed CVG's 2016 acquisition of the magazine through a series of loans. "We took over Parkview Capital Credit on April 29, and then I immediately went on the board in May," Walthour told Folio: on Monday. "Our first board meeting was when we started asking a lot of questions." Walthour didn't share many specifics on the decisions that precipitated Jackson's removal as CEO, but said there were "a number of transactions, both corporate and personal" that raised concerns. Clear View Group did not immediately respond to a request for comment. "At this stage in the inquiry, we felt like there was enough ‘there’ there to affect a leadership change," Walthour said. "A lack of transparency was part of it. More troubling was a failure to follow the process and protocol of the company. There are certain transactions that... Continue reading at 'Folio Magazine'
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Brian Murray, president and CEO of HarperCollins Publishers, will be the sole speaker at the Frankfurt Book Fair’s annual CEO discussion. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Dan Reynolds, CEO and president of Workman imprints Storey and Timber, has been named CEO of Workman Publishing Company, effective immediately. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Nosy Crow has created a new board book, published by Unicef, that will be given to new parents in... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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David Krantz took the reins as YP CEO in 2012, when the listings directory spun away from AT&T Interactive, which was his former employer and the brand's former parent. Since then, he's been busy pushing what consumers for more than 125 years called the Yellow Pages—which rebranded to its... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2014-07-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Family Christian Stores, the largest Christian retail chain in the U.S., has appointed Charles Bengochea as president and CEO, succeeding Cliff Bartow, who is retiring after 11 years at the helm. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Glenn Britt, a former chairman and chief executive of Time Warner Cable and a leader in the pay-television industry for many years, died of cancer Wednesday at his New York City home at the age of 65. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2014-06-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Two further exam boards have omitted American novels and plays from their lists of proposed set... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Snapchat’s CEO Evan Spiegel has apologized after a series of emails from his college days revealed insensitive statements regarding women. Gawker’s Valleywag published Spiegel’s e-mails from when he was a fraternity brother at Kappa Sigma at Stanford, a notoriously wild house that got kicked off... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2014-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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David Fishman is taking over as CEO of TV Guide Magazine after current chief exec Jack Kliger resigned Wednesday. The "planned transition" comes just six months after Fishman and Kliger were named COO and CEO, respectively, by the magazine's ownership group, OpenGate Capital. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2014-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Feldman, executive director of the Cuyahoga County Public Library, will lead the American Library Association for the 2015-16 term. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Despite the best guesses of b-to-b publishing CEOs, print revenue isn't going away and digital dollars aren't stacking up as fast as they thought (or, maybe, hoped) they would. Print advertising still accounted for more than half (52.5 percent) of total revenue last year for the 100-plus... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2014-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hearst Magazines UK, the principal business for Hearst in the United Kingdom, has named Anna Jones its new chief executive officer per a joint announcement Monday by Hearst Magazines president David Carey and Duncan Edwards, president and CEO of Hearst Magazines International, to whom Jones will... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2014-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sameer Hashmi reports from a bookstore in Mumbai, where a thirst for political insight is driving up book sales. Continue reading at BBC World
[ BBC World | 2014-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ahead of Time Inc.'s impending spin-off later this quarter, Time Warner announced the makeup of the 10-member board that will oversee the publishing giant once it officially goes public on its own. Time Inc. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2014-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Barnes & Noble announced Thursday that Scott Cowen, president of Tulane University, has been elected to its board of directors. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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McClelland & Stewart has recruited three prominent poets for a board intended to reinvigorate its renowned poetry program. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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McGraw Hill Professional's Keith Fox will be joining Phaidon Press as chief executive officer. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Newspaper Association of America on Tuesday elected Robert Dickey, president of Gannett Co.’s U.S. Community Publishing division, as its next chairman. Dickey will succeed Robert Nutting, president and CEO of Wheeling, W.Va.-based O ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2014-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Two weeks after George Lossius stepped down as CEO of Publishing Technology, plc, the U.K. company, which has offices in North America, has named digital publishing veteran Michael Cairns as CEO. Cairns, the company's online division chief operating officer, will assume his new responsibilities... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tribune Company has named Jack Griffin CEO of its publishing unit, the company said Thursday. His first day is April 14.The publishing unit, which consists of eight newspapers including the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune, was formed last July when Tribune announced its intention to spin... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2014-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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