Bonnier Corp. Delegation for GRID 2012
 Twelve Bonnier Corp. employees have been selected to attend the annual Bonnier GRID media conference in Stockholm, Sept. 3-4. This is the fifth straight year that a group from the U.S. has attended GRID, which invites passionate speakers from all corners of the globe to engage with 250 Bonnier employees selected from Bonnier companies all over the world.
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TransWorld Motocross Hires New Publisher: Don Wilson
 Don Wilson is the new publisher of TransWorld Motocross. Wilson comes to TransWorld with a wealth of knowledge and success in advertising. Wilson spent the last 17 years with a career in broadcasting; during 12 of these he successfully sold multimedia advertising across radio, websites and events to clients including Anheuser-Busch, Toyota Motor Corp., BMW Motors, McDonald’s and more.
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Saveur’s James Oseland Returns for Fourth Season as Judge on Top Chef Masters
 James Oseland, editor-in-chief of Saveur magazine, will return for his role as a judge on Bravo’s hit TV series Top Chef Masters when the fourth season premiers on July 25 at 10 p.m. ET/PT. Oseland’s four-year tenure as a judge is the longest in the show’s history. Co-starring with Oseland, host Curtis Stone, and co-judge Ruth Reichl will be 12 award-winning chefs who will battle it out for bragging rights and cash prizes based on their performances during weekly epicurean elimination challenges, with the last person standing receiving $100,000 to donate to the charity of choice.
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Mark Crone Lands Audience Development’s List of All-Stars
 Our Senior Director of Email and Database Marketing Mark Crone was named one of Audience Development’s 2012 All-Stars — individuals who are recognized for pushing the boundaries of customer and brand marketing. In the last two years, Crone has spearheaded the development of a modeling platform that has boosted the performance of Bonnier’s customer acquisition and retention marketing.
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Parenting’s Christina Vercelletto Shares 101 Summer Thrills for Kids on Today
 Parenting’s Deputy Editor Christina Vercelletto brought the magazine’s “101 Days of Summer Thrills” roundup from the June issue to life on NBC’s Today show — with the help of some adorable kids. Vercelletto showcases Parenting’s expertise in creating fun, affordable, engaging crafts and family activities that help kids get active, beat rainy-day blues, help show off summer vacation memorabilia and more.
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Jonas Bonnier will be the keynote speaker at MIN’s Sales Executive of the Year Award event on June 27 in New York. |
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The third annual Saveur Summer BBQ: Global Food Tasting Event will be held on Tuesday, June 26. It will be open to the public for the first time. For ticket information, click here. |
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A big coup for NASTAR, the company’s recreational ski and snowboard race event: Olympic gold medalist Julia Mancuso signs on as official ambassador. |
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Bonnier Photo of the Month: Ana Connery, editorial director of The Parenting Group, interviews First Lady Michelle Obama.
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Jennifer Anderson promoted to VP, digital audience development. She leads the central digital audience development and digital analytics groups to support our brand teams in growing audiences, deepening engagement and measuring/analyzing performance across our digital products … There’s been a switch at the top two editorial positions of Bonnier’s two dive brands: Eric Michael and Mary Frances Emmons move over to Scuba Diving, while David Espinosa and Patricia Wuest head over to Sport Diver … Kim Hays promoted from managing editor to deputy editor of Babytalk … Laura Anastasia joins the magazine‚ taking the managing editor’s slot … Deanne O’Connor is the new senior art director for Parenting … Nicole Pierron moves to the email marketing designer position in consumer marketing. She was a coordinator … Charles Amyx takes a new job at Bonnier as web designer. He was in consumer marketing … Jessica Jeffcoat is the new senior marketing and partnerships manager for Parenting … Jake Steingraeber joins as expo director for the Field & Stream Deer & Turkey Expo events … UFC hires Mike Carlson as deputy editor … Andrea Dean is the new senior integrated marketing manager for Saveur … Two new members of the audience development team: Amanda Jackson is the new social media manager and Krista Newhook joins as social media coordinator … Ana Urena is a new web designer in our 2 Park New York office … Beth Friedman joins the travel team as regional sales director … Coming aboard full time is Kaci Hamilton as web editor of Caribbean Travel + Life … SNOW hires Daniel Swinford as regional sales manager … Melissa Harris comes aboard full time as ad coordinator in our Winter Park office … Alisa Beeli is The Parenting Group’s new integrated account manager in our Los Angeles office … TransWorld hires Brady Ferdig as content distribution associate … Peggy Beane joins Working Mother Media as senior account director … David Cross joins full time as a developer in our Winter Park office … Elina Bolokhova is the new editorial assistant for Parenting.com … Popular Science also adds an editorial assistant: Rose Pastore … John Poulin comes aboard full time at TransWorld SNOWboarding as associate editor. |
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This week’s Up Close subject is celebrating his 20th year with the company. During his tenure, he has traveled the globe and fished in some of the best billfish spots in the world. Meet Dave Ferrell, editor of Marlin magazine, to find out what has been his most memorable day on the job during the last two decades.
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 Jennifer Owens, editorial director of Working Mother, has been awarded the American Society of Magazine Editors first ASME Scholarship to Yale for the publishing course: Leadership Strategies in Magazine and Digital Publishing. The course takes place July 15-20 at Yale University.
 Elaine Lembo, deputy editor of Cruising World, was awarded a prestigious fellowship to attend a science workshop on global change in coastal ecosystems. She was one of only 10 reporters invited to the workshop, which ran June 3-8 at the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography.
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