• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Login
  • Register

Publishers Lunch

The Publishing Industry's Daily Essential Read

  • Publishers Marketplace
  • Site Guide
  • Help

People: Salvatore to Lead Broadway, and More

May 26, 2009
By Michael Cader

Broadway has hired Diane Salvatore as vp, publisher, effective immediately, reporting to Crown Publishing Group president Jenny Frost. Deputy editorial director Charlie Conrad and the rest of the Broadway editorial staff now report to Salvatore.

A longtime magazine editor, she was editor in chief of of Ladies’ Home Journal for six years, through July 2008, where she relaunched it as “a modern magazine with lush photography and sophisticated design, while continuing and amplifying its tradition for high-quality journalism and social advocacy.” She published short fiction by authors including Lesley Dormen and Elizabeth Berg in the magazine, and is the author of five small-press novels. Her “mandate is to further develop the Broadway list, building upon the imprint’s recent successes.”

In Holland, Bruna will start a new (not yet named) imprint for translated literary fiction, with a focus on women readers, launching in spring 2010 and comprising 10 to 15 titles a year, run by Jacqueline Smit. Most recently Smit was the publisher of Sirene, where she published Sara Gruen, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Lisa Unger, Claudia Schreiber and Laila Lailami among others in Dutch translation.

Borders has named Scott Laverty as chief information officer and Paul Devitt as director, e-Commerce Systems. Laverty was most recently SAP retail pratice leader for the US at IBM and he will be responsible for the “overall vision, strategic direction and tactical execution of all information technology systems and solutions.” Devitt was senior manager of e-Commerce Technologies at Circuit City.

Also at Borders, vp of corporate communications Anne Roman is returning to public relations consulting, joining a small marketing firm in Toledo. She will continue to work for Borders on a consulting basis, and will remain the primary “media contact point on the strategic and financial topics that I’ve always handled for the company.”

Filed Under: Free, Personnel

sidebar

Primary Free Sidebar

Login


Forgot password
Quick Pass users click here to log in
Get Full Access
The publishing industry's essential daily read

Each Publishers Lunch Deluxe subscription includes full access to our searchable multi-year archive of industry news, a nightly email reporting 10 to 50 deal transactions, and our database of industry contacts, scripts, and posting privileges.

Learn More

RSS Automat

  • Solid State Books Workers Announce Plans to Unionize March 28, 2023 Union website
  • Following Sale, America's Test Kitchen Lays Off 23 Employees, Including All of ATK Kids Staff March 28, 2023 Union instagram post
  • Acquire and Fire: Hachette UK In Consultations to Eliminate About Half the Staff of Welbeck March 28, 2023 Bookseller
  • Jefferson, de Kretser Win Folio Prizes March 27, 2023 Prize announcement
  • Harper UK Edits Agatha Christie Novels to Remove "Offensive" Language March 27, 2023 The Guardian
  • NYU Launches Five-Day "Advanced Publishing Institute" Program for January 2024 March 25, 2023 NYU site
  • Hachette UK to Publish "Spare Us!" Parody on April 6 March 23, 2023 Publisher site
  • Netflix to Stream Series Based on Ramit Sethi's Book, "How to Get Rich" March 23, 2023 THR
  • James Patterson Signs First-Look Development Deal with Skydance Television March 22, 2023 Deadline
  • "I find it kind of stunning that the [Internet] Archive would put its entire free service at risk over such an obviously wrong stand" March 21, 2023 Dan Kennedy / Media Nation
© 2023 Publishers Lunch. All Rights Reserved.