By Chloe Malle 4/06/10 6:13pm

Respect Her Authority! Comedy Central Prez Buys in Harrison for $4.44 M.

Doug Herzog, the head of MTV Networks Entertainment, credits Comedy Central president Michele Ganeless with that network’s duckling-to-swan transformation from repository for syndicated sitcoms and stand-up acts to a hallowed home for envelope-pushing original content. In the trade magazine Broadcasting & Cable, Mr. Herzog even calls her “one of the key architects of Read More

By Leon Neyfakh 3/13/09 3:24pm

Penguin Press Hires Bloomsbury’s Nick Trautwein

The Penguin Press, which has been one pair of hands short since Vanessa Mobley’s departure at the end of January, has hired Nick Trautwein of Bloomsbury to edit nonfiction. 

Mr. Trautwein, who came to publishing from magazines, has been at Bloomsbury since 2006; while there, he edited such titles as Edmund White’s A Boy’s Read More