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Revolving Door Newsletter: 11.03.09
Texas Tribune Launches; Layoffs at The Advocate
November 3, 2009 |
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The Comcast acquisition of NBC Universal could become a reality as soon as next week, according to The New York Times. Comcast would own 51 percent of the joint venture, with General Electric owning the rest. Vivendi, which currently boasts a 20 percent stake in NBCU, will get out entirely -- assuming the French media conglomerate and G.E. can reach an appropriate valuation. If not, Vivendi could sell off its stake in an initial public offering, a move that would jeopardize any deal. Elsewhere, at least one person thinks Comcast should set its sights on Netflix instead of the Peacock...
Vivek Shah, group president of Time Inc. News Group's digital division, leaves the company ahead of what are expected to be mass cuts... Laid off from Vanity Fair? Editor-in-chief Graydon Carter wants to hire you at his Monkey Bar restaurant... BusinessWeek loses president Keith Fox, but he'll remain at McGraw-Hill Cos... The Advocate says goodbye to a number of staffers... The latest sign of the dying newspaper industry: Murray Chass reports that less than half of the newspapers that cover Major League baseball teams on the road sent a correspondent to the World Series. Then again, this might also say something about the diminishing importance of the national pastime... And then there's the Detroit Free Press, which runs a series of articles whose content was suggested to top editors by one of their advertisers, heath insurer Humana Inc... Benton Ives lands a promotion at Congressional Quarterly, filling the spot left by Brian Nutting's departure... Travis Armstrong is out as editorial page editor at the Santa Barbara News-Press... The future of news begins today, as former Texas Monthly editor Evan Smith launches The Texas Tribune with backing from venture capitalist John Thornton. The site, meant to fill the news void in Austin, raised $3.6 million and will not accept advertising. It boasts 12 journalists on staff, poached from the best papers in the state and paid salaries as high as $90,000. Any newspaper or television station can use the Tribune's content for free... LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman joins Greylock Partners, which just closed a $575 million round of fundraising, as a partner... Nicki Dugan leaves Yahoo. She's been in the PR department for the better part of a decade and has overseen the Yodel Anecdotal corporate blog since its inception. She didn't announce any future plans... Bee Shaffer takes a job about as far from the hallowed halls of Vogue as she can get. Anna Wintour's daughter will be assistant to College Humor's editor-in-chief Ricky Van Ween... Richard Metzger will helm the Los Angeles Times' Brand X blog... After an 18-month stint at Amazon, Madeleine McIntosh returns to Random House as president of sales, operations, and digital, a newly created role... Elisabeth Kallick Dyssegaard signs on as editor-in-chief at Hyperion. She had been executive editor of HarperCollins imprint Smithsonian Books... Matt Dowshen jumps from Deutsch New York to Ogilvy... Paulina Brusca joins D S Simon Productions... And there are changes at Organic Gardening, Fox Sports en Espanol, and more...
November 3, 2009: Benton Ives has been named legislative action editor at Congressional Quarterly.
He had been writer and reporter there. (FBDC)
November 3, 2009: Reid Hoffman has been named partner at Greylock Partners.
He remains executive chairman at LinkedIn. (Business Insider)
November 3, 2009: Lisa Gallagher has been named literary agent at Sanford. J. Greenburger Associates.
She had been former publisher at William Morrow. (GalleyCat)
November 3, 2009: Paulina Brusca has been named vice president of media tour services at D S Simon Productions.
She had been director of media tours at News Broadcast Network. (PRNewser)
November 3, 2009: Matt Dowshen has been named head of account management at Ogilvy.
He had been senior vice president and group account director at Deutsch NY. (AgencySpy)
November 3, 2009: Madeleine McIntosh has been named president of sales, operations, and digital at Random House.
She had been director of Kindle content acquisition for Europe at Amazon. (Publishers Weekly)
November 2, 2009: Doug Hall has been named senior editor at Organic Gardening.
He had been senior editor, newsstand magazine division, at Meredith Corporation. (release)
November 2, 2009: Angel Gambino has been named vice president of business development at Sonico.
She had been global vice president of music and content at Bebo. (release)
November 2, 2009: Juan Vallejo has been named Eastern region sales manager at Fox Sports en Espanol.
He had been account executive there. (mb)
November 2, 2009: Paul Laureano has been named director of integrated sales and marketing at Fox Sports en Espanol.
He had been senior manager there. (mb)
November 2, 2009: Caitlin Alexander has been named senior editor at Random House Trade Paperbacks.
She had been editor there. (Publishers Lunch)
November 2, 2009: Kerri Buckley has been named editor at Random House Trade Paperbacks.
She had been at Bantam Dell at Random House. (Publishers Lunch)
November 2, 2009: Elisabeth Dyssegaard has been named editor-in-chief at Hyperion.
She had been executive editor at Smithsonian Books. (Publishers Lunch)
October 30, 2009: Kim Harwood has been named director of advertising at Global Traveler Magazine.
She had been West Coast marketing consultant at Black Book Inc. (mb)
October 30, 2009: Nancy Seliger has been named executive vice president of global client relations at Fleishman-Hillard International Communications.
She had been Eastern region president there. (release)
October 30, 2009: Chrissy Mahlmeister has been named assistant editor at LIFE.com.
She had been temporary editorial assistant at InStyle. (mb)
October 30, 2009: Tessa Barrera has been named media strategist at HUGE, Inc.
She had been communications manager at Howcast.com. (mb)
October 30, 2009: Tom Siebert has been named director of communications at HUGE, Inc. He had been vice president of communications at Initiative. (mb)
October 30, 2009: Steve Schepke has been named vice president of business development at Sometrics.
He had been agency general manager at Tsavo Media. (release)
October 30, 2009: Anna Lister Cheese has been named U.K. client manager at Publishing Technology. (Publishers Lunch)
October 30, 2009: Martin Borbone has been named U.S. client manager at Publishing Technology. (Publishers Lunch)
October 30, 2009: Richard Gehringer has been named chief financial officer at Columbia University Press.
He had been controller at The New York Foundation for the Arts. (Publishers Lunch)
October 30, 2009: Julie Will has been named executive editor at Rodale Books.
She had been senior editor there. (Publishers Lunch)
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