 Megan Liberman |
SiriusXM hired Megan Liberman to serve as senior VP, news, talk & entertainment. In this new role, she will oversee SiriusXM’s news, talk, entertainment and comedy channels. Liberman joins SiriusXM from Yahoo, where she VP and editor-in-chief of the Yahoo News Group, responsible for all original news reporting, the Yahoo home page, news partnerships and live events coverage. Before coming to Yahoo, Liberman spent 13 years at the New York Times, most recently as Deputy News Edito
 Susan Glasser |
The New Yorker added Susan Glasser to the roster of columnists on its digital platforms. The former editor of Politico and currently its chief international-affairs columnist, Glasser will write a twice-monthly column for newyorker.com from Washington. She is also the former editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy and spent four years as the Washington Post’s co-bureau chief in Moscow. Glasser will continue to write her weekly international-affairs column for Politico and host her weekly podcast, “The Global Politico,” but her work for The New Yorker will be primarily focused on domestic affairs
 Lauren Iannotti |
Meredith Corp. promoted Lauren Iannotti to editor-in-chief/content director for Rachael Ray Every Day magazine. Most recently, Iannotti served as the publication’s executive editor. In her new role, she will manage editorial content and design of the magazine, as well as the www.rachaelraymag.com website. Prior to Meredith, Iannotti served as executive editor of the Condé Nast title Brides. With a rate base of 1.7 million, Rachael Ray Every Day is published 10 times a year. “Lauren’s experience in the women's category fits perfectly with the lifestyle orientation of the Rachael Ray Every Day brand,” says Carey Witmer, EVP and Group Publisher of the Meredith Food Group.
Underscore Media, a new creator-led media venture dedicated to New York sports, is built around three established New York sports personalities, Sal Licata, Jimmy Traina, and John Jastremski.
McClatchy, which owns 29 daily papers across 14 states (including The Miami Herald, Sacramento Bee and Kansas City Star), launches a wave of layoffs that extends to at least 13 of those papers... The Toledo Blade, which was founded in 1835, is set to shut down on Dec. 31, unless owner Block Communications manages to find a buyer for it... A bill awaiting approval by California governor Gavin Newsom would give local newsrooms a boost. 
Fox News Media issued a pretty sparse release to announce the departure of one of its stars. “Effective today, Maria Bartiromo is no longer with FOX News Media,” it reads.
Brunswick Group partner John Simons has joined CNN as senior director of business & media. He held top jobs at Time and the Wall Street Journal.
WNET, the nation’s largest public media company, names Edward O’Keefe its next president and CEO, effective September 21. O’Keefe succeeds Neal Shapiro, who becomes president emeritus and will retire at the end of the year... The Stealth Bot Prohibition Act, which would empower news publishers and other content providers to defend themselves by mandating transparency for all bots crawling their sites, in introduced in the House by Rep. Laurel Lee (R-FL) and Rep. Valerie Foushee (D-NC)... Google gets socked by European Union regulators with a $1 billion fine for using the platform’s dominance as a search engine to illegally undercut competition.
