Topic: Kent Brownridge

OK!: Brownridge's Dramatic Departure Not Based on 'Strategic Error'

FOLIO - 1100 days ago
Not long after joining the celebrity weekly, Brownridge [pictured] fired publisher Tom Morrissy, hired a new head of public relations and named former Quick & Simple editor Susan Toepfer to replace founding editor Sarah Ivens, who announced she was leaving the magazine.. endured ...

Brownridge Out as OK! General Manager

FOLIO - 1111 days ago
Kent Brownridge, the former Alpha Media CEO and longtime Wenner Media executive, has stepped down as general manager at OK! Brownridge [pictured] named Toepfer to the top editorial post in September shortly after founding U.S. edition editor Sara Ivens announced she ...

Publisher Out at OK!

FOLIO - 1208 days ago
Less than a month after taking over as general manager at OK! Brownridge also laid off publisher Tom Morrissy, replacing him with Lori Burgess, a former senior vice president and publications director at Niche Media. "We ran 422 ad pages in 2006 ...

Kent Brownridge Named GM at OK!

FOLIO - 1259 days ago
Less than two weeks after Kent Brownridge announced that he was stepping down as CEO of Alpha Media to spend more time with his family, the former Wenner Media executive has been named general manager at the U.S. edition of OK ...

Kent Brownridge Steps Down as CEO at Alpha Media

FOLIO - 1274 days ago
Kent Brownridge, the former Wenner Media chief executive who engineered the Quadrangle Group's acquisition of Dennis Publishing's U.S. portfolio (minus The Week) for $240 million last year, is stepping down as CEO of Alpha Media, the company he formed ...

Jimmy Jellinek Out as Editor of Maxim

FOLIO - 1330 days ago
In a move that had been rumored for months, Maxim editor Jimmy Jellinek, the so-called " Former executive editor Jim Kaminsky replaces him, with the new title of editorial director. Jellinek's firing comes less than two weeks after the $240 million sale ...

Blender Names Rolling Stone's Levy Editor-in-Chief

FOLIO - 1475 days ago
Alpha Media Group CEO Kent Brownridge today announced the appointment Rolling Stone staffer of Joe Levy as editor-in-chief of Blender.. Levy joins Blender after a decade at Rolling Stone, where he served most recently as executive editor. Prior to his time at ...