Earlier this week, FW Media announced that Ted Hill will oversee programming for a rebooted, more finely- and skills-focused DBW, as our conference partner Mike Shatzkin noted in a long blog post on the end of the “big change” era in publishing that he will no longer program the event. Mike and I were always partners in programming, producing and promoting the event since it started in 2010 — with former FW ceo David Nussbaum providing the founding direction and spark — so to be clear, our association [e.g. Publishers Lunch, and Michael Cader] with the event has ended as well. […]