Personnel
Dreamscape Institutes Layoffs Following RB Media Acquisition
As part of the acquisition by RBmedia, this week Dreamscape laid off several people, indicated by one anonymous employee to be more than 10 positions. Dreamscape offered the following statement: “As part of integrating Dreamscape with RBmedia, it became clear that RBmedia had capacity and infrastructure that could be leveraged by Dreamscape while still enabling us to deliver the same high-level of service to authors, publishers, distributors and the narrator community. Unfortunately, this resulted in a portion of the team being given notice.”
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PRH Launches Christian Publishing Group
Penguin Random House has launched the Penguin Random House Christian Publishing Group, through which it “aims to significantly expand readership, strengthen connections with audiences, and deepen its range of books and content offerings for the Christian readership.” The new standalone entity comprises Waterbrook, Multnomah, Image, and Forum, the imprints that were housed in the Crown Publishing Group until it was disbanded in 2018, when they were moved over to the Random House Publishing Group. Campbell Wharton, who has been deputy publisher for the lines, takes over as svp, publisher of the new group. He will report to cfo Manuel Sansigre. Longtime […]
PRH US Shows Little Growth in Staff Diversity
Penguin Random House US released its workforce demographics report for 2024, noting divides in gender and little progress in the racial diversity of employees. “As our demographics show, while we continue to improve in some areas, we have a long way to go to make our workforce representative of U.S. society—and we are committed to staying the course,” the company says. Among non-warehouse staff, 74.66 percent identify as women and 24.09 are men, with .85 percent reporting as nonbinary. Looking at racial makeup, 68.91 percent of non-warehouse employees are white, 10.64 percent are Asian, 10.02 percent are Hispanic, 6.18 percent […]