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Deanna Brown is leaving her post at Scripps Networks (NYSE: SNI) to join Federated Media as its new President and COO. The hiring completes a search that was began last May when John Battelle, the company
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She’ll pull FM together. Count on it!
OMG — here comes the chaos.
Anything is better than working for an old media company trying to become someone new.
Kinda looks like she's desperate to get away from Scripps?
But if FM is in such trouble, how did they get her from Scripps?
I've also heard that the company is cratering and Battelle needs to stay because he took a fairly large piece of money out of the company. The investors must be putting pressure on him to get revenues up.
Apparently Deanna Brown was the "last resort" choice for Federated's Battelle. John is definitely going to stick around. FM is not in good shape.