Future Editors Of America?

Folio: The Magazine for Magazine Management, Nov 1, 2002

NEW MEDIA

Randy A. Nicolau to president of Playboy.com Inc., from senior vice president responsible for marketing, e-commerce and subscription services.

Jim Louderback to editor-in-chief of Ziff Davis Media's Internet division. Louderback will continue writing the monthly column "TechSmart" for USA Weekend. Previously, he was vice president and editorial director of TechTV (formerly ZDTV).

Jamie Macy to account manager, Forbes.com, from West Coast regional sales manager, Ziff Davis Internet.

RESIGNED/RETIRED

Joe Levy, CEO and founder of International Data Group's CXO Media. Levy, who spent 30 years with IDG, founded CIO magazine in 1987.

Peter Howarth, editor of British Esquire magazine, announced he will be leaving the publication as of February to pursue other interests.

Ben Isaacson, executive director, the Association for Interactive Marketing has resigned from the association to pursue consulting ventures.

DEATHS

Walter Annenberg, who founded TV Guide and Seventeen magazines and also served as an ambassador to Britain, died late last month at the age of 94. Annenberg inherited The Philadelphia Inquirer and two racing publications from his father in 1942. He went on to build Triangle Publications into a multibillion-dollar business that included newspapers, magazines, radio, and television stations. He founded Seventeen in 1944, and established TV Guide in 1953. Annenberg eventually sold off Triangle properties, including TV Guide, which he sold to Rupert Murdoch in 1988 for $3 million.

H. Pettus Randall II, chairman and CEO, Randall Publishing Company, died on September 7, at the age of 57. He took over the company - which his father started in 1934 - in 1976, at the time merging it with Award Company of America, which he had started. In 1984, he was named chairman and CEO of the media company, which operates publications in the trucking, construction and industrial categories.