Beginning next month, Andrew Beaujon will join the Poynter Institute as a media reporter, filling out the void left when Jim Romenesko quit late last year. Mr. Beaujon is currently the arts and entertainment editor at TBD.com, a Washington D.C. news site.
Prior to TBD, Mr. Beaujon worked at Washington City Paper, Martha Stewart Living and SPIN. He is the author of Body Piercing Saved My Life, a nonfiction book about Christian rock. Read More
RollingStone.com senior editor Doree Shafrir has been named executive editor of BuzzFeed, the company announced today. She will oversee the social news site’s expanding pop culture coverage, joining CEO Jonah Peretti, managing editor Scott Lamb and editor in chief Ben Smith (whose politics team is currently enjoying a glittery debut on the GOP campaign trail) at the top of the masthead. Read More
Terry Jimenez has stepped down as president of Newsday Media Group, Cablevision local media president Tad Smith told staff Tuesday. He has been replaced by Fred Groser, who has been publisher of Newsday and commuter freebie amNewYork for the past two years.
Mr. Groser succeeded Mr. Jimenez in that post as well. Mr. Jimenez was Read More
Matt Zoller Seitz was named television critic at New York magazine, editor-in-chief Adam Moss announced today.
Mr. Seitz, most recently the television critic at Salon, replaces Emily Nussbaum, who took the same position at the New Yorker.
Prior to Salon, Mr. Seitz was a critic at the Star-Ledger and The New York Times.
New York has named its first-ever photographer-in-residence: Christopher Anderson, of the Magnum photography cooperative.
“I’ve had the pleasure of working with Chris for many years, and have been continuously blown away by his work,” said editor-in-chief Adam Moss in an announcement. “We created this new position to provide a showcase for his work and to deepen the magazine’s commitment to original photography.” Read More
Today Reuters announced the hire of Wall Street Journal investigative reporter Steve Stecklow, a Pulitzer Prize winner and former colleague of Reuters heavyweights Steve Adler and Alix Freedman. Read More
As New York Times reporter Brian Stelter accidentally informed the entire caring population (i.e. his Twitter followers), Christiane Amanpour is leaving ABC News’s This Week. Read More
Atlantic Digital editorial director Bob Cohn announced two hires today: David Graham, a reporter at Newsweek, and Megan Garber, an assistant editor at the Nieman Journalism Lab.
Ms. Garber is joining the tech channel and Mr. Graham is joining the politics channel, according to a memo procured by Fishbowl DC.
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Adweek news editor Alex Koppelman announced via Twitter that he is leaving the more-than-a-trade-mag for the New Yorker, where he will be associate online news editor.
A few minutes later, fellow news editor Brian Braiker announced he would be leaving for the same post at the US office of the Guardian. Read More
For every Huffington Post vertical, a bold-face editor-at-large.
The Divorce vertical has Nora Ephron, Huff/Post 50 has Rita Wilson, Business has the economist Simon Johnson, and, as of today, Huffington Post Gay Voices has Michelangelo Signorile, the Sirius XM radio host and author of Queer in America. Read More
