The New York hiring spree continues at Variety. Following the poaching of Brian Steinberg from Advertising Age, the trade has recruited Todd Spangler for the position of east coast-based digital editor.

From today’s announcement:

Spangler was most recently the technology editor for Multichannel News, a leading publication covering the cable industry. Prior to that, he was an editor and writer with several technology publications, including PC magazine, Interactive Week and Baseline.

During his tenure as a senior editor at Baseline, the magazine won three Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Awards in 2005-2006.

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Is Nikki Finke still sure about those alleged March Variety layoffs? A day after the trade officially unveiled its triumvirate of editors-in-chief comes the news that Brian Steinberg has been enlisted as a senior TV editor.

The announcement is posted on the beta version of the publication’s new website. Too early to tell how close the page is to the upcoming finished product, but we’re not too fond of the headline font for this article.:

Steinberg has covered the media and advertising industries since 1998, most recently serving as television editor at Advertising Age… He’s managed Ad Age’s popular annual chart of TV spot prices for the past five years and is an expert on Super Bowl commercials.

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