:BusinessWeek is making what BW blogger Stephen Baker calls “big staff changes.” (One of the biggest changes, of course, is that we’re reading about it on a BW blog.) Leading the news, John Byrne, former BW staffer and more recently Fast Company head cheerleader, is going home as executive editor/magazine. That has good gossip value given that he’s leaving FC just after helping convince new owner Joe Mansueto to come aboard. (Mark Varnos Vamos is acting editor.) But the main news is BW editor in chief Stephen Adler created not only one exec ed job but three and the other two show a forward-thinking magazine: Kathy Rebello, AME for science and tech/editor in chief of BusinessWeek Online, has been upped to executive editor/online and Joyce Barnathan, AME-finance, economics and personal business, to executive editor/global franchise. Adler: “Publishing a great magazine is only one part of what we do … This reorganization will help us excel and build our audience in new global markets and in whatever formats business professionals prefer, from print, to digital, to television, to new technologies that we can’t yet imagine.” Memo on Romenesko. More in MediaWeek.
– Joan Connell joins The Nation as web editor; Connell was a Pulitzer Prize-finalist, who spent the last seven years at MSNBC.com executive producers for opinions and most recently as senior editor. The press release calls Connell’s hiring “a key part of The Nation’s expansion of the magazine’s online presence, which includes a recent redesign and the introduction of several new web features, including a news wire that highlights overlooked but important stories on other, mainly progressive sites, PodCasts, RSS feeds, and, for the first time, the ability to interact with the writers of our online blogs and commentaries.” Should be interesting to watch.
– MSNBC.com finally adds instead of subtracting. Jennifer Sizemore joins MSNBC.com as the deputy editor-news from the Houston Chronicle, where she was deputy managing editor. She actually was hired just before Dean Wright left for Reuters, leaving MSNBC.com with a new deputy editor and a search for editor in chief.
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