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Comings and Goings: November 23, 2010
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Seth Lavissiere, former special markets manager at Langenscheidt Publishing Group, can now be reached at sethlavissiere@gmail.com. -
Yaged Named to Head Macmillan Children's Publishing Group
Jonathan Yaged has been named president of the Macmillan Children's Publishing Group. Yaged, who starts January 3, had been with the Disney Book Group for about 10 years before leaving in February...
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Job Moves: November 22, 2010
Stephen Black has joined Simon & Schuster in the newly-created position of v-p, client publisher services. Black, who is responsible for the company's distribution client relationships including new business development, reports to Dennis Eulau, evp, operations and CFO.
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Job Moves: November 19, 2010
Sloane Crosley is leaving Vintage/Anchor to focus full-time on her writing. Crosley, who spent nine years at the Random House imprint and was most recently deputy director of publicity there, has written the essay collections I Was Told There'd Be Cake and How Did You Get This Number. Crosley's last day will be December 10.
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Two S&S Execs Leave in Reorg
Dennis Eulau, operations head and CFO for Simon & Schuster, has reorganized the company's operations and finance group that he said "will provide for an increased level of integration and communication across our many business functions." Under the new structure, Eulau will work with an expanded group of direct reports that will serve as a cross-discipline operational council that will meet on a regular basis in order to set and execute S&S's srategic priorities and coordinate its day-to-day and long term functions.
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Job Moves: November 17, 2010
Brianne Mulligan has been named associate agent at Movable Type Literary Group. Mulligan was most recently an associate editor at Penguin's middle grade/YA imprint Razorbill.
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Bahash Takes Over McGraw-Hill Education
As part of a realignment of its parent company, Bob Bahash has been named president of McGraw-Hill Education, succeeding Peter Davis who has left the company to pursue other opportunities. Bahash, who held a number of position with MHE before becoming chief financial officer for McGraw-Hill Cos., will be replaced in the CFO role by Jack Callahan who had held the same position at Dean Foods.
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Job Moves: November 16, 2010
Nina Hoffman is stepping down from her position as president of National Geographic Books at the end of the year. National Geographic Publishing head Declan Moore said the company is beginning the search for a new senior book publishing executive.
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Amber Qureshi Leaving Free Press for Viking
Free Press senior editor Amber Qureshi is decamping for Viking, where she will take on the role of executive editor in January 2011. Viking president Clare Ferraro made the announcement today, noting, "Amber is an exciting addition to Viking's exemplary editorial team."
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Comings and Goings: November 16, 2010
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Anne Brooks, former executive director of sales at Langenscheidt U.S., can now be reached at ABrooks9@nyc.rr.com. -
Job Moves: November 15, 2010
Mark Polizzotti has been appointed publisher and editor-in-chief at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he will oversee all aspects of the Museum's scholarly publishing program. Polizzotti was most recently director of intellectual property and publisher at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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Job Moves: November 12, 2010
Alessandra Bastagli will join Free Press as senior editor, beginning November 29. Since 2005, Bastagli has been at Palgrave Macmillan, most recently as executive editor, where she acquired books in subjects including politics, history, memoir, and pop culture, all areas which she will pursue for Free Press.
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Benton Named Scholastic Trade Publisher
Lori Benton, whose career in children's publishing includes a long run at Harcourt's children's division where she rose to v-p and publisher, has been named v-p and publisher for the Scholastic Trade Publishing division. In her new role, which begins January 3, Benton will oversee direction of the publishing program for all imprints. She succeeds Suzanne Murphy who moved to Disney Publishing in June, and will report to Ellie Berger, president of Scholastic Trade Publishing.
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Job Moves: November 11, 2010
St. Martin's Press has hired Brenda Copeland as an executive editor. Copeland will start November 29. For the past five years, Copeland was executive editor at Hyperion; prior to that she was an editor at Pocket Books and Atria.
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Rosenthal Gets Penguin Imprint
Just a few months after leaving Simon & Schuster where he was publisher and executive v-p of the flagship S&S imprint, David Rosenthal has been named president and publisher of a new general, as yet unnamed imprint, at Penguin Group. Rosenthal will start in January and hopes to have his first titles released next fall, eventually doing 24 to 36 titles annually.
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Job Moves: November 9, 2010
Lisa Faith Phillips has been named director of digital strategy and development at Hachette Book Group. Phillips will help evaluate potential partnerships, foster communication internally and externally about HBG strategy, and address the rapidly changing needs of the digital publishing businesses. Phillips was most recently a digital marketing consultant with Flip Global Marketing and, before that, v-p and general manager at Random House Direct.
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Ashmead Memorial Today
Larry Ashmead's memorial service will be held today, November 9, from 4 to 5:30 at St. Bartholomew's Church in Manhattan, 325 Park Ave., with a reception to follow. The longtime HarperCollins editor died September 3.
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Job Moves: November 8, 2010
Oxford University Press has made a series of senior appointments designed to boost the organization's digital development. Pam Sutherland has been named group chief information officer, a newly-created role with responsibility for the Press's group-wide digital and IT infrastructure. Casper Grathwohl was named online and reference publisher in the Global Academic Business, and Ernst Kallus has been named digital media director for English Language Teaching.
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Job Moves: November 5, 2010
Jonathan Stolper has been named v-p, general manager of Nielsen BookScan. He was most recently publisher of Octopus Books USA. He succeeds Jim King, who left the company in August.
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Weber Stepping Down from Senior Role at RH
Andrew Weber, senior v-p, operations and technology at Random House, will step down from that position at the end of the year. The announcement was made early Thursday afternoon by Madeline McIntosh, president, sales, operations and digital, and who will now take over Weber's oversight responsibilities.
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