After WaPo names a new Pop Culture Editor Joe Heim will move into an editing role for WaPo Magazine. They describe him as a “wordsmith” who “loves to edit.” Heim joined the publication in 2000.
The memo on him, which isn’t half bad as memos go, remarks that “He wrote the memorable Bruce Springsteen profile and recently the story about public clocks for A1, a story he no doubt was inspired to do when he checked a public clock to see how late he was for work.
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WaPo is on a roll these days of employees leaving the Style section. This morning management announced to staff in a memo that Mike McPhate, the Features web editor, has joined the NYT‘s homepage team. They say he’s eager to move ba... Read Post
Kristina O’Neill has been named the new editor-in-chief of WSJ. magazine. O’Neill most recently served as executive editor of Harper’s Bazaar, where she had been since 2000. O’Neill succeeds Deborah Needleman, who left WSJ. to edit ... Read Post
Jane Elizabeth, WaPo‘s deputy local editor for digital, is leaving the publication at the end of March “to explore the entrepreneurial world of digital journalism,” according to an internal newsroom memo. Elizabeth joined WaPo in 20... Read Post