Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Rogers shakeup: Whyte and Mitchell now each multi-title uber-publishers

[This post has been updated] Rogers Consumer Publishing announced it has consolidated many of its magazines under two people today.
  • Ken Whyte, the editor and publisher of Maclean's magazine, becomes a vice-president, responsible as publisher for Maclean's, Canadian Business, Profit and MoneySense magazines.
  • Kerry Mitchell, the publisher of Chatelaine (and, until recently, Châtelaine), also becomes a vice-president and assumes the publisher's job at Flare as well as becoming executive publisher of trade and custom titles Cosmetics, Cosmétiques, Glow and Pure magazines in the role of executive publisher.
In the company's release over the signature of senior vice-president Marc Blondeau, no word was uttered about the fate of longtime Canadian Business and Profit publisher Deborah Rosser or Flare publisher Orietta Minatel.[UPDATE: (However, a post by Masthead says that they have been let go by the company.) ]

[UPDATE: the company memo to staff said:
Kelly Latimer, publisher of Glow and Pure, Jim Hicks, publisher of Cosmetics and Cosmétiques, Lisa Tant, editor-in-chief at Flare and Tracy Finklestein, in her capacity as director of business development and promotions at Flare, will now report to Kerry.]

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Rosser and Minatel have been let go.

Rosser, a publisher and VP with three brands under her belt, is replaced by Whyte, who becomes a publisher and VP with FOUR brands to take care of—even though he barely has time for one. Mitchell adds another to her 47 zillion titles. Senior management calls this progressive and strategic, but it's a salary dump, plain and simple, that they will rue a year or two from now.

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