By Kat Stoeffel 2/15/12 11:54am

Changes

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Crown VP Tina Pohlman Named Publisher at Open Road

Jane Friedman announced today that Crown VP Tina Pohlman has been named publisher at Open Road Integrated Media. Ms. Pohlman will lead the e-book backlist specialist’s acquisition of new titles, expand into new verticals and oversee editorial services, according to Ms. Friedman, Open Road co-founder and CEO.

Ms. Pohlman is currently the publisher of Three Rivers Press and Broadway Books, brought in during the 2010 shake-up of Random House’s Crown Publishing Group. Prior to that, she was a senior editor at Spiegel & Grau.

She starts at Open Road on March 5. Read More

By Emily Witt 7/24/11 5:00pm

Publishing

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Carrie Kania Leaving HarperCollins for London

Carrie Kania, senior vice president and publisher of It Books and Harper Perennial at HarperCollins, is departing HarperCollins to work as an agent at Conville & Walsh Literary Agency in London. Reached by phone in Wisconsin, where she was visiting family, Ms. Kania said that her departure from HarperCollins was amicable, and her move was Read More

By Molly Fischer 2:23pm

With Nina Bourne’s Death, Mourning an Era

Nina Bourne–the legendary Knopf advertising director who died last month at 93–was memorialized Wednesday afternoon at the New York Ethical Culture Society.

“A meeting-up of the old Knopf family,” was how Jane Friedman said she’d described the service to Random House CEO Markus Dohle. But the crowd that assembled Wednesday also included the family Ms. Read More

By Matt Haber 6/11/08 11:49am

Lineup for June 11, 2008

Leon Neyfakh looks at Jane Friedman’s departure from HarperCollins and writes, "There are questions now about what really happened, and the official story does not seem to add up. How long had Ms. Friedman known she was being replaced? Had she really submitted her resignation, or did Mr. Murdoch fire her? If he did, Read More

By Leon Neyfakh 6/10/08 8:32pm

Why Jane Jumped: Forensics on the End Of Friedman at HC

At 11 a.m. last Wednesday morning, Jane Friedman presided over a meeting with her publishers and some marketing people on the 15th floor of the HarperCollins building in midtown. The meeting was about digital outreach, and offered an occasion to discuss ideas for how the News Corp.-owned publishing house could use computers to sell more Read More

By Leon Neyfakh 6/06/08 2:59pm

Jane Friedman, Day 2

The Times and the Wall Street Journal have day two stories on Jane Friedman’s abrupt exit from HarperCollins; both have interviews with Brian Murray, the new CEO, who says News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch, who has owned the publishing house for about 20 years, first summoned him about a promotion on Read More