New editor appointed for Mastheadonline

Valerie Maloney is the new editor of Masthead, the online site about the Canadian magazine industry. She succeeds Marco Ursi, who recently left to return to school to become a teacher.

Masthead says that Maloney was an associate editor at CLB Media, working on five b2b titles and various websites and is a graduate of Humber College's posts-grad journalism program. She also holds a psychology degree from the University of Waterloo. According to a profile on a Humber site her writing career began when she was published in Reader's Digest at the age of seven.

In addition to editing Mastheadonline, Maloney will be a print reporter for sister sites PrintCan.com, serving the printing industry and DesignEdgeCanada.com, covering the graphic design industry.

She can be reached at vmaloney@masthead.ca.