Kalmbach Publishing Company, the owner of Discover magazine, has hired an editor-in-chief to take over when the magazine moves from New York City to Waukesha, Wisconsin at the end of the year.
The new editor, Stephen C. George, is currently an executive editor at the Reader’s Digest...
Kalmbach Publishing Company, the owner of Discover magazine, has hired an editor-in-chief to take over when the magazine moves from New York City to Waukesha, Wisconsin at the end of the year.
The new editor, Stephen C. George, is currently an executive editor at the Reader’s Digest Association Inc. in Greendale, Wis., according to Kalmbach's press release.
Here's more from the press release:
George is the former editor of The Saturday Evening Post. His career includes senior editorial positions at Meredith Corp.’s Better Homes and Gardens and Rodale’s Prevention. George is an experienced health and medicine editor. He oversaw coverage of the topic at Prevention and, earlier in his career, was an associate editor at The New Physician. From 1999 to 2002, he was USA Today’s health/science columnist for its USA Weekend newspaper...
Discover magazine's publisher announced today that the magazine would be moving to Waukesha, Wisc., where the publisher has its headquarters.
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Discover magazine's publisher announced today that the magazine would be moving to Waukesha, Wisc., where the publisher has its headquarters.
Kalmbach Publishing Co. said it would close Discover's offices in New York in January, 2013.
Kalmbach said this was "a strategic move to better leverage all its publishing resources and integrate its science media properties," a phrase I trust would never appear in the magazine. (Disclosure: I write frequently for Discover.)
The release said that Discover editor-in-chief Corey Powell "will continue to lead the magazine through the transition"--meaning, I assume, that he will not be leading it after the transition. It said that he and executive editor Pamela Weintraub will "continue to have an...
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