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 […]
Alcántara leaving Adweek for WSJ
Ann-Marie Alcántara, a retail reporter covering e-commerce, with a focus on digitally native vertical brands at Adweek, is leaving the organization to join The Wall Street Journal. Previously, Alcántara was first working as an assistant tech editor and then as an assistant news and culture editor at PopSugar. Before that, she was an editorial intern […]
Adweek hires Nover as reporter
Scott Nover will be joining Adweek as its new platforms reporter where he will be covering social media platforms. Nover will be based in Washington D.C. Recently, Nover was working freelance for The Washington Post, Vox.com and Fortune magazine. He has also worked at The Atlantic in the same capacity. Nover also served as a […]
Adweek hires O’Hara as diversity and inclusion reporter
Adweek magazine has hired Mary Emily O’Hara as a diversity and inclusion reporter. She will start in February. On Twitter, O’Hara wrote, “What excites me about this role is the opportunity to focus on something that impacts us all — advertising and media — while continuing to report through the lens of underrepresented communities.” O’Hara […]
Adweek reporter departs to join Gizmodo
After 10 months in the Adweek newsroom, Shoshana Wodinsky will be leaving the organization to join Gizmodo where she will be covering investigations on ad targeting, data mining and consumer privacy. Her new role beings January 2020. Before joining Adweek as tech reporter, Wodinsky served as editorial intern at NBC News. She also held the […]
Adweek expands reporting team in retail, marketing and brands
Stephanie Paterik, executive editor of Adweek, sent out the following to readers: Like many of you, Adweek is deep into 2020 planning, and one of the most exciting changes happening ahead of the New Year is the addition of several new positions. We write every day about how rapidly the industry is changing, and how […]
Adweek seeks tech reporter
Adweek is looking for a New-York based tech reporter to work at the company’s headquarters and cover the role of programmatic and automatic buying and selling in media. The company is looking for candidates who have expertise and knowledge of the media landscape. Some key responsibilities include covering breaking news, collaborating with the programmatic editor, […]
