Brendan Vaughan will join Ballantine Bantam Dell on May 9 as executive editor, reporting to Jennifer Hershey. Vaughan was most recently executive editor at GQ and before then, articles editor at Esquire.
In the UK, Nicholas Brealey has left Nicholas Brealey Publishing, was which was bought last year by Hachette UK.
William Rosen, 61, died April 28 of gastrointestinal stromal cancer. He spent nearly 25 years as an editor and publisher at Macmillan, Simon & Schuster and the Free Press, and was the author of several works of narrative nonfiction. Viking has his book about the discovery and dissemination of antibiotics scheduled for publication in 2017.