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Media Updates
The Cision Media Research Team maintains a database of more than 1.6 million records, including social influencers, traditional media contacts, outlets and opportunities. Here is a sampling of recent media moves. Follow the team at @Media_Moves.
Vogue (New York, NY): Vogue recently has made some changes. Leigh Belz Ray joined the magazine as executive director of branded content. She previously spent two years as the features and news director at InStyle. Tonne Goodman, Vogue fashion director since 1999, will leave her staff position and remain as a contributing editor. Phyllis Posnick also will leave her staff position and remain as a contributing editor. Posnick has been the executive fashion editor for Vogue since 1987. Lisa Love, a 28-year veteran of the magazine and its Los Angeles director, will shift to working with CNX, Condé Nast’s in-house creative agency.
Las Vegas Review-Journal (Las Vegas, Nev.): Nicole Raz has been promoted to business editor with the Las Vegas Review-Journal, replacing longtime business editor Dan Behringer, who retired in April. Raz most recently served as an assistant business editor with the paper.
Bloomberg (Singapore): Rachel Rosenthal has been named editor of Bloomberg Opinion in Singapore. She will cover opinion stories on news and current events. Rosenthal previously was a reporter and editor at The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires for nine years, based in Singapore, Hong Kong, and New York.
ProfNet Expert Alerts
Below are experts from the ProfNet network that are available to discuss timely issues in your coverage area. You can also submit a query to the hundreds of thousands of experts in our network – it’s easy and free! Just fill out the query form to get started: http://prn.to/newsletter.
Imagining Andy Warhol’s Social Media Usage
Dr. Sarah DeIuliis
Visiting Assistant Professor
Duquesne University Department of Communication & Rhetorical Studies
Contact: Emily Stock, stocke@duq.edu
U.S. Adults Now Spend 50 Percent of Their Day Interacting With Media
Dr. John Huber
Chairman
Mainstream Mental Health
Contact: Ryan McCormick, ryan@goldmanmccormick.com
There Are Only 4 Things in Your Way (Not 100)
John Assaraf
CEO
NeuroGym
Contact: Michelle Tennant, Michelle@WasabiPublicity.com
Job Opportunities
The following are job listings for staff and freelance writers, editors and producers. You can view these and more job listings in the community section of PR Newswire for Journalists.
US Culture Writer
The Independent (NY)
Story Editor
Barron’s (New York, NY)
Money & Politics Reporter
MarketWatch (Washington, DC)
