Variety hires Adweek’s Zorrilla as a reporter
Variety has hired Mónica Marie Zorrilla as a TV reporter. A story on Variety’s website states, “Zorrilla most recently served as a breaking-news reporter at Adweek. At Variety, she will cover the television-programming business, including streaming services, studios, networks and development for all Variety platforms. She will be based in Los Angeles and report to Daniel Holloway, Variety‘s executive […]
Adweek names chief content officer, editor in chief
Adweek has promoted its editor to chief content officer and named a new editor in chief. A story on its website states, “Lisa Granatstein has been promoted to Chief Content Officer, and is responsible for Adweek’s content across the business. Her responsibilities include overseeing editorial and events, while also acting as a brand steward in […]
Publishing editor Jerde departs Adweek
Sara Jerde, a publishing editor at Adweek, has left the publication. “The people make a newsroom and it was a privilege to work alongside such talent,” she wrote on Twitter. She had been in that role for the past year. She had also been reporting on the business of news organizations, while taking on some […]
Adweek hires Southern as media editor
Adweek has hired Lucinda Southern as media editor. She started on Tuesday. She has been with Digiday for the past five years, first as a senior writer and then UK media editor. Before coming to Digiday, Southern was an associate editor at The Knowledge Engineers. She also held the post of an editorial assistant at Eve White Literary […]
Adweek hires Kaplan as story desk editor
David Kaplan is returning back to Adweek as a story desk editor. Kaplan first joined the company in 2001 as a media reporter and left in 2004. His new role starts Oct. 12. Kaplan is also the founding editor of Kambr Media Group (KMG), which is the content arm of Kamb, Inc. and publisher of “kambr.media”, […]
Adweek lays off diversity and inclusion reporter O’Hara
Adweek magazine laid off diversity and inclusion reporter Mary Emily O’Hara, who started in February. “My strongest skills stem from 15+ years of reporting and editing coverage of underrepresented communities, but I am also interested in branded content, affiliate link and partnership content, copywriting, diversity and inclusion consulting and community-building with purpose,” she said in […]
Adweek’s Rios departs for Polygon
Josh Rios, a video producer and editor at Adweek, has left the company to become a video producer at Polygon. He had been at Adweek since September 2017 and had created new video franchises involving pop-ups, experiential marketing and brand retrospectives. He also conceptualized, wrote, produced shareable content for digital/ social platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, […]
Los Angeles-based investment firm acquires Adweek
Shamrock Capital, a Los Angeles-based investment firm, has bought Adweek from Beringer Capital, as per reports. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Laura Held, partner at Shamrock Capital said: “Adweek has been a critical source of information and insights for the marketing and advertising community for decades. Adweek’s experienced management team has done […]
Fleming becomes senior editor of memberships at Adweek
Jameson Fleming, the chief of staff at Adweek, is becoming the publication’s senior editor for memberships. “I’ll be leading our strategy to build a stronger membership program from designing new members-only benefits, better newsletters and features that help readers discover more of our content,” he wrote on Twitter. As chief of staff at Adweek, he […]
Media and tech editor Stenberg departs Adweek
Josh Sternberg is a media professional with 20 years experience across a variety of roles in the industry. Most recently, Sternberg was the media and tech editor at Adweek, overseeing a team of 8 reporters (also did a stint running the brand desk). He set editorial strategy, assigning news/analysis/feature/enterprise stories around how media and tech companies […]
