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Ad budgets are scattering into streaming, DOOH and experiential. The roles in demand look very different than they did a year ago.
If your media career was built on mastering a single platform, the job description has changed. Advertising budgets are scattering. Social feeds are crowded. Brands are pouring money into digital out-of-home, streaming, experiential and live-event…
Miles Jennings
Ken Sunshine's Sunshine & Sachs PR agency isn't in the industry directories. Sunshine doesn't blog. He doesn't even have a Web site. He's been known to turn down A-list celebrities calling for his help. "We…
Jason Chupick
Deborah Norville is first and foremost a survivor. This broadcast veteran endured one of the most brutal cases of career- and character-bashing ever inflicted on a television personality in the nineties, but emerged stronger for…
Diane Clehane
As features and special projects director of Harper's Bazaar, Laura Brown works closely with editor-in-chief Glenda Bailey to create the fashion magazine's most buzzed-about stories and celebrity covers that have garnered more than their fair share…
Diane Clehane
As the first woman of color to be the top editor at a Condé Nast publication—and someone who spent her early career in corporate law—Brides editor in chief Keija Minor knows a thing or two…
Valerie Berrios
Even as a child, Toan Lam knew he wanted to tell stories. He grew up in a rough neighborhood in South Sacramento, Calif., and used reading and writing as an outlet—and eventually a passport out…
Valerie Berrios
The Onion has evolved into much more than that satirical newspaper we all know and love. (Sample headline: "Obama Spends Afternoon in Garage Restoring Classic Drone.") "America's Finest News Source" has become a full-blown digital-media…
Valerie Berrios
Update: Eric Noe is no longer the managing editor at ABC News Digital. Eric Noe knows digital news. The journo, who began his career at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, has been with ABC News Digital since…
Valerie Berrios
Jesse Ventura has never been one to mince his words. The Vietnam vet turned pro wrestler turned governor of Minnesota has been openly critical of, among other things, the nation's two-party system, organized religion and…
Valerie Berrios
Television has been in Nina Parker's blood from an early age. "I remember getting a cardboard box and making a TV, cutting it out and getting in it," Parker said of her childhood. "I was…
Marcus Vanderberg