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Revolving Door Newsletter: 11.02.07

Newsweek of Exec. Changes

November 2, 2007

Newsweek's creating the RD news this week: Rick Smith, the publication's longtime editor-in-chief and chief executive officer of Newsweek Inc., announced on Tuesday he was stepping down from those positions, although he'll stay on as chairman. In the shakeup the followed, former Nickelodeon GM Thomas E. Ashcheim stepped into the CEO position, president Harold Shain will now oversee Budget Travel as president and CEO, Newsweek executive VP Gregory J. Osberg filled the spot Shain left, and Ann McDaniel added the title of ...

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