Fast Company names new West Coast editorial director

Nancy Miller has been named the new West Coast editorial director for Fast Company, according to Matthew Fleischer of Fishbowl LA.

Fleischer writes, “Miller comes to Fast Company from Wired, where she was a senior editor in charge of Hollywood and entertainment coverage. Before that, Miller worked as a staff writer for Entertainment Weekly and an associate producer for KCRW. She’ll continue to be based in LA.

“Fast Company also announced the hire of Creativity editor and Advertising Age contributor Teressa Iezzi as its latest staff editor. Iezzi will work out of the mag’s New York office.

Read more here. Before joining Wired, Miller was a freelance music and film journalist and on-air correspondent for NPR’s “The Business,” recorded at KCRW in Santa Monica. She was a staff writer at Entertainment Weekly for five years and a music commentator for KCRW’s broadband channel, KCRWmusic.com.

Miller was also a contributing editor at Details and Marie Claire, and a senior associate editor at Maxim. Her work has appeared in SPIN, Details, Harper’s Bazaar, and other magazines.