John Driscoll Joins Bonnier Corp. as Vice President of Corporate Sales
 Veteran sales and marketing executive John Driscoll is Bonnier’s new vice president of corporate sales. Driscoll brings more than two decades of sales and marketing experience to the position, including 15 years in the publishing industry. Driscoll held a variety of positions during the course of a long tenure at Car and Driver and Road & Track, ultimately serving as SVP, chief brand officer and publisher.
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Chris Phillips Named Publisher of SKI, Skiing and Skiing Business
 Chris Phillips is the new publisher of Bonnier’s Mountain Group, which includes SKI, Skiing and Skiing Business. Phillips, a Colorado native, comes to Bonnier following nearly a decade in sales and marketing at some of the region’s top lifestyle and enthusiast publications. Most recently, Phillips was director of sales and marketing for Colorado AvidGolfer (CAG), a media company and magazine with a readership of more than 560,000.
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Vote for Your Favorite Bonnier Cover in ASME’s Best Magazine Covers Contest
 It’s time again to vote in ASME’s Best Magazine Covers Contest. This year, 20 Bonnier Corp. covers are nominated in six of the 10 categories. The contest, hosted by Amazon.com, honors the most memorable, compelling and iconic covers of 2011. Voters will decide who wins the best cover award in each of the 10 categories, along with who takes home the ultimate Reader’s Choice Cover of the Year award. All voters will automatically be entered into a sweepstakes to win one of 10 Kindle Fire devices.
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Caribbean Travel + Life Wins TV Award
 Just last newsletter, we told you that Field & Stream’s Total Outdoorsman Challenge‚ produced by our Warren Miller division‚ won two Telly awards. We can now add three more for Bonnier. Caribbean Travel + Life’s Best of the Caribbean St. Lucia episode won a best television program Telly award‚ while Florida Travel + Life’s Affordable Luxury and Sport Fishing TV were honored with bronze awards.
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SKI’s Greg Ditrinco Lauds the “Monet of the Mountains” on NBC
 When NBC Nightly News profiled map trailblazer Jim Niehues, whose hand-painted mountain panoramas are used as trail maps for skiers around the world, it looked to SKI’s Greg Ditrinco for his expert insight on these map masterpieces. Ditrinco gives Niehues high praise for his one-of-a-kind maps, which he says are as integral to skiing as snow.
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Saveur racks up awards/nominations:
- MIN’s Best of the Web Awards
- Best Overall Video for “Shake the Dickens Out of It”
- Digital Team of the Year
- International Association of Culinary Professionals Awards
- Saveur.com named Best Website
- Best Video Series for Saveur.com’s “Sandwich Stories”
- Todd Coleman — Excellence Award for Food Photography and Design
- Three James Beard nominations. Winners will be announced on May 4.
- Food Coverage in a Food-Focused Publication
- Visual Storytelling
- M.F.K. Fisher Distinguished Writing Award
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Parenting.com wins MIN’s Best of the Web Award for Best Paid Smartphone App for “Can I Eat It?” |
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Two major promotions for the Outdoor Group: Jeff Timm to Eastern sales manager. He’s been with the group for seven years, and is known for his great enthusiasm, positive energy and strategic thinking in taking on and winning the competitive New York marketplace; Paula Iwanski named national sporting goods sales director. Since joining in 2006, she’s never had a year of declining sales, and has won four consecutive SHOT Business Sales Person of the Year awards … David Rich joins Bonnier as director of strategic development in our Boulder office … Chelsea Lobser appointed photography director for Saveur. She previously split her time as photo editor of Garden Design and American Photo … Mildred Mattos, who’s been photo editor of Saveur and SNOW, as well as assistant photo editor of Garden Design, will take over duties as full-time photo editor of Garden Design … Changes for The Parenting Group’s marketing team: Vanessa Fimbres promoted to marketing manager, West Coast; Julie Pianowski promoted to senior marketing manager, Midwest … Kim Oswell moves from copy editor at TransWorld to join Weldon Owen as executive assistant/marketing assistant … TransWorld has three new employees: Andrew Brady is the new associate online editor for Ride BMX, while Kelsey Smith, a former intern for TransWorld Business in our Boulder office, is now the new digital coordinator; Chelsea Masters joins as the new receptionist in Carlsbad … Also from TransWorld, Mozelle Martinez moves into the sales department as ad sales coordinator … In Winter Park, Jeff Williams moves from an email marketing coordinator to an assistant producer position for the travel brands’ websites … Yachting taps Patrick Sciacca, an experienced journalist, boater and avid offshore angler, as deputy editor … Two new web developers in Winter Park: Mark McCook and Mary Beth Grage … Hillary Smith joins the Saveur team as senior marketing manager. She’s based in our 2 Park office … Katie Logan is a new sales manager for the Outdoor Group ... Jerry Ricciotti comes aboard full time as video production coordinator for TransWorld SURF … Kristen Heptinstall joins Bonnier’s dive brands as digital content manager … Bo Morris is a new public relations director in Winter Park. His main responsibilities include event PR for the wakeboard, sailing and Warren Miller film tours … Two hires for Bonnier’s new DAMS sales representative teams: Kristine Van Rossum is the Midwest account manager. She’s based in Chicago; Molly Wootton is the West Coast sales director for DAMS and corporate. She’s based in the Los Angeles office … Gabrielle Corrao joins Saveur as a new sales assistant … Kate Gregory moves to the corporate marketing team as the new sales development manager. She will continue to work in the Los Angeles office … Rochelle Free is a new project manager for the Winter Park digital team … Chris Lipsit joins the audience development team as a digital analyst … Bo Young Lee is the new senior inclusion and diversity consultant for Bonnier’s Diversity Best Practices division. |
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This week’s Up Close subject fell into graphic design and art direction by accident, and taught himself how to articulate a highly visual process to nonvisual types. Today, he is the creative director for our technology titles. Meet Sam Syed to find out how Steve Jobs played a part in his most memorable day on the job.
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