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Sarah Falter joins as director of publicity. She was previously director of publicity at Harper Christian.

Lindsey Kennedy joins as associate director of publicity. She was previously assistant director of publicity at Random House.

Lara Baez joins as marketing & publicity manager. She was previously communications manager at Twitter.

Jackie Houton has been promoted to senior copyeditor/proofreader.

Maria Brannan will join on February 9 as agent and translation rights manager, working with Sam Edenborough to sell rights for the agency’s clients and building her own list. Previously, she was literary scout at Maria B. Campbell Associates in London.

Ashley Hong has joined as agent. Previously she was an editor at Convergent.

The FT profiles publisher Chris Jackson as “the man quietly revolutionizing publishing.” They write: “He believes in the power of stories to alter people’s trajectories, to stir or even trouble the broader moral imagination, and to shift culture.”

Jackson says: “I have this theory of the circle of editing. On one side of the circle you have the writer, and on the other side you have the reader, and the editor travels around that circle. My job is to get as close as possible to the writer, so that I can understand and really see their ideas . . . Then I slide along the circle to the reader and start becoming the reader’s advocate in the process.”