Friday, April 09, 2010

In another sign of the times, Nikkei becomes the latest newspaper to restrict access to its Web site. Japan's largest source for business news went one step further, however, and now demands anyone wanting to link to an article or the home page must submit a written application explaining their reasoning. Two of the country's other big papers -- Yomiuri (circulation 10 million) and Asahi (circulation 8 million) -- already limit access to their sites by running shorter versions of the stories online. They don't make people jump through hoops to link...

The New York Times shifts around its economics team. Former politics reporter Michael Powell joins the beat, as does media journo Motoko Rich. Another former Timesman, Stephen Labaton, joins Goldman Sachs as a full-time consultant and presumably scores a nice pay boost... Nia-Malika Henderson leaves Politico to cover the First Family for The Washington Post... USA Today outsources its travel site content to Demand Media. The move could either raise the latter company's profile above the respectability line or bring the newspaper down to DM's level...

Alex Pareene leaves Gawker for Salon, where he'll be blogging at the site's War Room. Maureen O'Connor, Gawker's night and weekend editor, joins full time... There are two more changes at Henry Blodget's growing empire: Erin Geiger Smith departs after overseeing the launch of Law Review, while Lawrence Delevingne jumps to Absolute Return + Alpha...

Time Out New York publicity manager Lindsay Kaplan says goodbye to the weekly pub for Hachette Filipacchi Media, where she'll serve as social media manager... Mary Pomponio signs on as publicity manager at Plume Books... Oliver Wyman brings on former Dealbook editor Peter Edmonston and Harvard Business Review's Eileen Roche as director of digital marketing and senior editor, content development, respectively... And there are changes at Foreign Policy, Citysearch.com, and more...

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April 9, 2010: Tracey Weber has been named executive vice president, textbooks and digital education, at Barnes & Noble. She had been president, North America, at Travelocity. (Publishers Lunch)

April 9, 2010: Emer Flounders has been named publicist at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. (Publishers Lunch)

April 9, 2010: Candace Finn has been named subsidiary rights manager at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. She had been subsidiary rights associate there. (Publishers Lunch)

April 9, 2010: Carla Gray has been named director of marketing, adult books, at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. She had been associate director of marketing there. (Publishers Lunch)

April 9, 2010: Mark Tavani has been named executive editor at Ballantine Books. He had been senior editor there. (Publishers Lunch)

April 9, 2010: Jason Sack has been named assistant editor at Harper. He had been editorial assistant there. (Publishers Lunch)

April 9, 2010: Maya Ziv has been named assistant editor at Harper. She had been editorial assistant there. (Publishers Lunch)

April 9, 2010: Jiyeon Dew has been named production manager at Bloomsbury. (Publishers Lunch)

April 9, 2010: Carrie Majer has been named senior publicist at Bloomsbury. She had been publicist there. (Publishers Lunch)

April 9, 2010: Benjamin Adams has been named senior editor at Bloomsbury. (Publishers Lunch)

April 9, 2010: Kevin Vye has been named senior vice president of technology at Atrinsic. He had been vice president of technology there. (release)

April 9, 2010: Julia K. Wakefield has been named senior account executive and social media director at Schwartz Media Strategies. She had been communications specialist at The Weinbach Group. (release)

April 9, 2010: Allie Schwartz has been named account executive at Schwartz Media Strategies. She had been intern there. (release)

April 9, 2010: Nia-Malika Henderson has been named political writer at The Washington Post. She had been White House reporter at Politico. (FBDC)

April 9, 2010: Anna Edney has been named health care reporter at Bloomberg. She had been health care reporter at CongressDaily. ()

April 9, 2010: Alex Wayne has been named health reporter at Bloomberg News. He had been reporter at Congressional Quarterly. (FBDC)

April 9, 2010: Motoko Rich has been named economic reporter at The New York Times. She had been publishing reporter there. (GalleyCat)

April 9, 2010: Ayla Brown has been named Early Show contributor at CBS. (TVNewser)

April 9, 2010: Katie Smith has been named deputy managing editor at Roll Call. (FBDC)

April 9, 2010: Matt Savener has been named copy chief at Roll Call. (FBDC)

April 9, 2010: Josh Kurtz has been named managing editor, operations, at Roll Call. (FBDC)

April 9, 2010: Dan Parks has been named managing editor, news, at Roll Call. (FBDC)

April 9, 2010: Cathy Goepfert has been named national sales director, Fancast, at Comcast Interactive Media. She had been sales director at Daily Candy. (WebNewser)

April 9, 2010: Federico Quadrani has been named executive producer, weekends, at MSNBC. He had been supervising producer, the Today show, at NBC. (TVNewser)

April 9, 2010: Lisa Bloom has been named newsreader, Anderson Cooper 360, at CNN. She had been commentator there. (TVNewser)

April 9, 2010: Sam Mandragona has been named digital media producer at CNN. He had been creative director at NBC Universal. (mb)

April 8, 2010: Sabrina Suares has been named Eastern sales director at MyWebGrocer. She had been account executive at NBC Universal. (mb)

April 8, 2010: Brett Goodwin has been named senior account director at MyWebGrocer. He had been vice president of client development at Directive Analytics. (mb)

April 8, 2010: Jonathan Tepperman has been named managing editor and director at Eurasia Group. He had been assistant managing editor and deputy editor at Newsweek International. (mb)

April 8, 2010: Michele Wells has been named senior editor at DK. She had been senior editor at McGraw-Hill. (mb)

April 8, 2010: Bonnie Bachar Kintzer has been named chairman and chief executive officer at Women's Marketing, Inc.. She had been founder at Kintzer & Associates. (mb)

April 7, 2010: Erin Chrisinger Aulov has been named deputy art director at Foreign Policy. She had been art director at Washingtonian. (mb)

April 7, 2010: Patrick Heig has been named New York City editor at Citysearch.com. He had been San Francisco editor there. (mb)

April 7, 2010: Rachel Mannheimer has been named assistant editor at Bloomsbury. She had been editorial assistant there. (Publishers Lunch)

April 7, 2010: Margaret Maloney has been named associate editor at Bloomsbury and Walker. She had been editorial assistant there. (Publishers Lunch)

April 7, 2010: Pete Beatty has been named editor at Bloomsbury Press. He had been associate editor there. (Publishers Lunch)

April 7, 2010: Jeanne Emanuel has been named vice president of special and gift sales at Perseus Books Group. She had been executive director of sales at Adams Media. (Publishers Lunch)

April 7, 2010: Carol Smith has been named vice president and publishing director at Bon Appetit and the Gourmet brand. She had been senior vice president and chief brand officer at Elle Group. (FBNY)

April 7, 2010: Eileen Roche has been named senior editor of content development at Oliver Wyman. She had been editor at Harvard Business Review. (FBNY)

April 7, 2010: Peter Edmonston has been named director of digital marketing at Oliver Wyman. He had been DealBook editor at the New York Times.(FBNY)

April 7, 2010: Lisa Sharples has been named president at Reader's Digest Community. She had been president at AllRecipes.com. (FBNY)

April 7, 2010: Alex Pareene has been named blogger at Salon.com. He had been politics writer at Gawker. (FBNY)

April 7, 2010: Daryl McNutt has been named vice president of marketing at BrightRoll. He had been vice president of marketing solutions at ComScore. (mb)

April 7, 2010: Lindsay Kaplan has been named social media manager at Hachette Filipacchi Media. She had been publicity manager at Time Out New York. (PRNewser)

April 6, 2010: Christopher Roy Correa has been named site launch adviser and social media adviser at TheLocalDish.com and Ashoka's Changemakers. He had been editorial director at Halogen Network. (mb)

April 6, 2010: Sarah Wambold has been named multimedia manager at the Museum of Contemporary Art. She had been media relations program manager there. (mb)

April 6, 2010: Beau Dure has been named founder and blogger at SportsMyriad.com. He had been sports reporter and online editor at USA Today. (mb)

April 6, 2010: Maria Aspan has been named reporter at Reuters. She had been consumer finance reporter at American Banker. (mb)

April 6, 2010: Daniel McGinn has been named senior editor at Harvard Business Review Group. He had been senior articles editor at Newsweek. (mb)

April 6, 2010: Alison Beard has been named senior editor at Harvard Business Review Group. She had been editor at Financial Times. (mb)

April 6, 2010: Jimmy Guterman has been named senior editor at Harvard Business Review Group. He had been executive editor at MIT Sloan Management Review. (mb)

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