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The Revolving DoorMonday Jun 22, 2009
About 20 Employees Cut at Perseus
The cuts affected three percent of the company's total workforce, and the company plans "a furlough program and executive pay cuts" this summer. While Perseus did not respond to GallyCat's request for comment, the PW article notes that Perseus president David Steinberger wrote a letter to employees explaining "it has become clear that we need to take additional steps now in order to be financially prudent and pursue opportunities to grow." Friday Jun 19, 2009
GalleyCat for Your EarsPodcast host and TVNewser blogger Steve Krakauer retired from the mediabistro.com Morning Media Menu podcast this morning. GalleyCat editor Jason Boog will be stepping into Krakauer's big pair of shoes on Monday morning. If you are a journalist, writer, blogger, media-type, publicist, or book-lover who wants to appear on the show, there's a wide-open guest calendar for the next few months. Topics will range from media news to publishing to newspapers to movies to magazines to culture to television, and, perhaps most importantly, books. Email Jason for more details. Here's more on Krakauer's last show: "Mediabistro.com editorial director Rebecca Fox and AgencySpy editor Matt Van Hoven helped send off Steve with some discussion about The New York Times's Bill Keller reporting from the frontlines of Iran and a reliving of the time Rush Limbaugh gave a shout out to the podcast. Also: what Steve has learned since launching the podcast a few months ago and some love lockdown." Dalmatian Publishing Group to Shutter Santa Monica Office
According to Publishers Weekly, the publisher is re-organizing in the wake of the move. Intervisual and Piggy Toes publisher Debra Mostow Zakarin will not make the Atlanta move, instead she will take an "editor-at-large" role in the company. Piggy Toes Press' list included children's books like "Hush-a-Bye Counting" and Intervisual's list included fill-in-the-blanks books like "My Life: A Book About Me" Here's more from a PW interview with Mary Counts, president of Intervisual and Whitman Publishing: "According to Counts, Dalmatian will continue to publish a 'full range' of titles under the two imprints, including some Intervisual pop-up books. Because of the current economic environment, fewer titles could come out of the imprints." Thursday Jun 18, 2009
Stuart Woods Promoted to Quill & Quire Editor
Woods had worked as a Q&Q staffer for two years, and has transitioned into the editor role following the death of journalist Derek Weiler in April. Before working as a print journalist, Woods' career began as an editor at the Montreal publishing house, Price-Patterson. Here is Woods' statement, from the release: "I would like to continue to build on Quill & Quire's reputation for in-depth industry analysis, breaking news coverage, and must-read reviews of upcoming books, while at the same time improving the way the magazine--in print and online--acts as a resource for the Canadian book publishing community as a whole. I am excited by the challenge presented by this opportunity, while at the same time saddened by the circumstances through which it has come about." Wednesday Jun 10, 2009
David Graham Departs at Granta Publications
This is the second shake-up at the literary organization in less than a month. On May 28 of this year, former editor Alex Clark resigned, and American editor John Freeman was appointed acting editor. This week Granta, the NY Observer, and Afterword all published interviews with the new editor. Here's more from the article: "In a short statement, the company said that queries previously directed to Graham should now be directed to Granta's owner and publisher Sigrid Rausing. There was no further comment." Friday Jun 05, 2009
Macmillan Audio Publicity Promotion
Hargadon previously served as assistant to publisher Mary Beth Roche helping with audiobook campaigns for authors that included Sandra Dallas, Patrick Taylor, and Elise Broach. Starting June 15, Hargadon will replace the current publicist, Liz Noland. Nolan is leaving the company for graduate school. Here's more about the group: "Macmillan Audio produces audio programs based on best-selling books published by the Macmillan group including St. Martin's Press; Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Henry Holt and Company; and Tor/Forge. Additionally, we also produce Macmillan Audio original programs." Thursday May 28, 2009
Granta Editor Departs
American Editor John Freeman was appointed Acting Editor, assuming that post immediately, the Board of Granta Magazine announced today. Earlier this year, GalleyCat reported from the Granta 105 release party in Manhattan. Here's more from the announcement: "The Board would like to thank Alex for her positive contribution to Granta over the past eighteen months and wishes her every success for the future." Tuesday May 26, 2009
Diane Salvatore Named Publisher of Broadway Books
The new publisher will report directly to Crown Publishing Group president, Jenny Frost. In addition to leading the the fifth largest magazine in America, Salvatore has guided a number of other magazines, including YM, Marie Claire, Good Housekeeping, and Redbook. Here's more from the release: "While at Ladies' Home Journal, Diane re-launched the 125-year-old publication, making it a modern magazine with lush photography and sophisticated design, while continuing and amplifying its tradition for high-quality journalism and social advocacy...She also published top-flight writers in unique columns such as 'My Life as a Mom,' 'Meditations on My Mother,' 'Close to Home,' and 'Mind Over Matters' and secured an exclusive magazine column with Pastor Rick Warren." Friday May 22, 2009
11 Laid-Off at Scholastic
The company has been restructuring for months. In March, Scholastic made Debra Lande publisher of Klutz, tasked with guiding the "creative and editorial direction of the Klutz publishing list and manage the strategic development of the Klutz brand." Here's an excerpt from the post: "Among those leaving in the downsizing were Margaret Coffee, director of field sales; and executive editor Grace Maccarone, who had been with the company for 30 years." Amanda Ridout Leaves HarperCollins UK
According to BookBrunch, the publishing world pondered her departure all day, trying to understand her surprise exit from the company. The article collects reactions from writers and executives around the book world. Here's an excerpt: "'I think Amanda was unlucky,' said one author of a number of HarperCollins bestsellers. 'She's not a book person, she should have been put in charge of sales. If she had, both she and HarperCollins would have been in a much happier position.'" (Via Sarah Weinman) PreviouslyNevada Barr Jumps to Minotaur Books Richard & Judy Book Show Canceled 100 Jobs Saved at Cambridge University Press Broadway EIC Jumps to Simon & Schuster Mark Gompertz Named Digital Publishing VP at Simon & Schuster Denise Oswald Joins Soft Skull Press/Counterpoint as Editorial Director Globe Pequot Group Publisher Heads to McGraw-Hill Cuts and Anger at University of New Mexico Press Two Literary Reporters Laid-Off at Boston Globe Cambridge University Press May Avoid Some Layoffs Caroline Sutton Named EIC of Hudson Street Press Emily Cook Joins Granta as Advertising Director MediaJobsDaily: Getting a Publishing Job Through mediabistro.com Nick Trautwein Moves to Penguin Press Kirkus Reviews Nonfiction Editor Relocates Nine Employees Laid Off at National Geographic Books Anja Schmidt Hired as Kyle Books Publisher Rob Weisbach Launches New Agency Assistant Editor Fired and Hired in 24 Hours Directory of Laid Off Publishing Employees Former Doubleday Publisher Steve Rubin Gets A New Job More Details on Cuts at HarperCollins Small Press Organization Cuts Executive Director Borders Cuts 16 Executive Positions Vanessa Mobley To Leave Penguin Press Rebecca Saletan Moves To Riverhead Three More Editors Laid Off at Publishers Weekly Cambridge University Press Lays Off 160 Employees Oxford University Press Lays Off 60 Employees Pantheon Books Publisher Released Drenka Willen Returns To Work After Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Lay-Offs Horace Engdahl Resigns After Ten Years as Secretary of the Swedish Academy Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Breakdown: Dispatches from the Front Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Breakdown: "Sad Day in Orlando" Departures and Layoffs at Simon and Schuster, Too Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Breakdown: Ann Patty, Others Cut Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Breakdown: "Nobody Could See This Coming" Don Weise Takes the Helm at Alyson A Top Publicist Changes Course, Pursuing Editorial Dream Jenny Rappaport Sets Up Her Own Agency Coolman to Hyperion, Greko to Macmillan Major Publishers Take Up Belt-Tightening Measures? Exit Interview with Felicia Sullivan Flaxman Legs mediabistro.com For Her Own Editorial Shop Atria Picks Up Durand As Senior Editor Hartman's Back in the Big Leagues, Ready to Play Harper Studio Adds Burningham to Marketing Team Promotions at Grand Central and Beaufort Books Jane Friedman Out at HarperCollins: If Anybody Knows Why, They Ain't Saying Former 'More' Magazine Editor New 'Voice' Editorial Director, Pam Dorman Back To Viking Book World Editor Buyout Confirmed: Arana Still Writing for WaPo Two More Hyperion Execs Defect To HarperCollins Bob Miller Leaves Hyperion For HarperCollins Collins Stockpiling of Executive Editors Continues Adam Bellow Latest Exec Editor @ Collins Shelfari Taps David Nudo for Sales/Marketing Role Lindsay, Diggs Jump Fence And Start Agenting Observer: Bloomsbury Drops Annik LaFarge Becky Saletan Takes Over @ Post-Merger Houghton/Harcourt Neyfakh Offers More on Schwalbe's Departure Observer: Will Schwalbe Leaves Hyperion New Tasks for Milkweed Veterans Newsday Book Editor Joins Bloomberg News Sam Tanenhaus Adds "Week in Review" to His Plate Hachette's Team-Building Week Continues The Express Line Between Doubleday and Hachette Incoming S&S CEO Assembles Her Team Sci-Fi Book Club Editor Now @ Wiley Paul Muldoon Takes Over New Yorker Poetry Desk D+Q Puts Their Accountant on Staff Michel Leaves William Morris UK for PFD Houghton Publicist Turns Agent; Dutton Publicist Steps In Endeavor Picks Coyne Out of Rugged Land Rubble Harper's Roth-Ey to London as Morgan's Desk Expands Maybe We Should Watch Slunch More Closely Waterstone's Founder Named University Chancellor S&S UK's Gordon Becomes a Literary Agent SSE Names Carl Raymond Associate Publisher Hachette Continues Exec Hiring Spree Dzanc Hires Publicist & Art Director Beth Ford Tapped for Hachette COO Job Nation Books Publicist Now At New Press Temporary Head for Houghton Mifflin's Trade Division Cannon Named Editor-at-Large at Ballantine Scribner PR Chief Turns Indie Filmmaker Hodgman Hops from Holt to Houghton Crown Forum's Publicist Switches to Harper Bennett, Simonoff Promoted at Janklow & Nesbit Counterpoint Fills Out Its Starting Roster HarperCollins' Jeanette Perez Now Full Editor Unbridled Books Hiring Spree Continues |
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