SmartMoney names new AME

Jonathan Dahl, the editor of SmartMoney magazine, made the following staff announcement:

I am happy to announce that Alice Hagge has been promoted to assistant managing editor, a position that will allow her to continue using her great copy editing skills but also to branch out into more editing assignments and to help Tedra Meyer continue to make our operation run as smoothly as any magazine in the business.

As we all know, Alice has been an invaluable member of SmartMoney, making us all look great by catching our errors. She came here as copy chief in February 2010 with an impressive resume that includes serving as copy chief for Condé Nast Portfolio and Portfolio.com., and earlier for Business 2.0 magazine and Business2.com. Alice has also worked as copy coordinator and letters editor for Money magazine. Between full-time positions, she has freelanced for Time magazine, Time Inc. Custom Publishing, ReadyMade and a handful of smaller publications covering topics ranging from food to feminism to, of course, finance. Alice is a graduate of the University of Georgia and holds a bachelor of arts in magazine journalism.

Alice will be taking the slot held by longtime SmartMoney staffer Kim Bernstein. Kim has been working for us in a variety of editing roles for more than 10 years, and we are indebted to her for her dedication and copy editing skills. For more than a year, she was the leader of our successful book project, “1,001 Things They Won’t Tell You,” and in recent years she has run our popular “10 Things” feature each month–doing the job as well as any editor here ever has. In a bold career move, Kim has been training to be a psychoanalyst, and she plans to start her private practice in the summer after completing her post-degree program. Her last day is jan 24th.

Let’s all wish Kim the best of luck in her new career, and please join me in congratulating Alice as she moves up the masthead.