Speakers for Magazines

Jordan Bitterman has been with Digitas since August 2005. As Senior Vice President, he is responsible for overseeing the interplay of paid, earned, and owned media and leading the agency’s media capability and social marketing practice. He has also played a central role in the development of Digitas’ brand content offering – The Third Act – and is a founding producer of its annual NewFront event, which pairs marketers with content creators. Before joining Digitas, Jordan was VP Group Media Director at FCBi. Before that, he worked at Digitas’ sister company Modem Media, where he ran the media capability for its New York office. He spent many years early in his career at Ammirati Puris Lintas, beginning on the traditional media side, but later moving over to the Interactive division. At 26, he was a Senior Vice President and the youngest member of the company’s New York Operating Board, a group of 30 executives tasked with leading key initiatives for the 1,100 person flagship office. Jordan began his professional career at the White House in The Office of Presidential Press Advance. In that role, his office was responsible for orchestrating the movements of the White House press corps in following the President. The pressure-packed environment of immediate reaction and mobilization served as a good primer for the world of New York advertising. He holds a B.A. degree in Marketing from The George Washington University in Washington DC.

For nearly thirty years before Nayan Chanda joined Yale University, he worked for Hong Kong-based magazine The Far Eastern Economic Review as editor, editor-at-large, and correspondent. From 1989-90, Chanda was the Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, and from 1990-1992 he was the editor of the Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly. He is the author of the acclaimed Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization (Yale University Press, 2007), and Brother Enemy: The War After the War, and co-author of over a dozen books on Asian politics, security, and foreign policy. Together with Strobe Talbott, he co-edited The Age of Terror: America and the World After September 11. He was the 2005 recipient of the Shorenstein Award for journalism, presented jointly by Stanford University and Harvard University. Chanda writes regular columns for the Times of India, Business World, and Straits Times of Singapore.

Michael A. Clinton was named president, marketing, and publishing director of Hearst Magazines in June 2010. Previously, he was executive vice president, chief marketing officer, and publishing director of Hearst. Prior to joining Hearst, Clinton was Executive Vice President of Condé Nast Publications, Publisher of GQ magazine, and held editorial and ad management positions at Fairchild Publications. Clinton has served as Chairman of the Board of Volunteers of America and is currently Chairman of the Magazine Publishers of America. He is also a member of the acquisitions committee of the International Center of Photography, and has served on the boards of The Starlight Foundation and Lifetime Television Network. He graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in economics and political science from the University of Pittsburgh, and earned his M.B.A. from Pace University’s Lubin Graduate School of Business.

Josh Cohen is the Senior Business Product Manager for Media and Publisher Advertising Platforms at Google. Previously, Josh was the Business Product Manager for Google News, where he was responsible for global product strategy, marketing, and publisher outreach for Google News. Prior to joining Google, Josh was Vice President of Business Development for Reuters Media, the world’s largest news agency. At Reuters, he led business development for Reuters Consumer Media team, including all activities with major strategic partners. He was responsible for agreements with AOL, Google, MSN, Yahoo!, and numerous media companies around the world for content distribution, revenue generation, and strategic investments. Before joining Reuters, Josh was Director of Business Development for SmartMoney.com, where he led business development and licensing activities for the site, a joint venture between Dow Jones and Hearst. Cohen holds degrees from the University of Michigan and Columbia Business School, where he graduated Beta Gamma Sigma.

Scott Dadich leads the creative efforts to build digital editions of Condé Nast's titles for electronic reading devices. In 2011, Fast Company named Dadich one of the 50 Most Influential Designers in America. He was the creative director of Condé Nast's WIRED, where he initiated and led the development of WIRED for iPad, which was introduced in May 2010. Building from its success, Dadich and his team have since led nine more of the company’s brands into monthly tablet publication across multiple platforms: The New Yorker, Golf Digest, GQ, Vanity Fair, Glamour, Self, Allure, Brides, and Condé Nast Traveler. Dadich is the only creative director ever to win both the National Magazine Award for Design and the Society of Publication Designers Magazine of the Year award three consecutive years. Prior to joining Condé Nast, he was creative director of Texas Monthly, which was nominated for 14 National Magazine Awards during his tenure and won for General Excellence in 2003.

Duncan Edwards is the President and CEO of Hearst Magazines International, an EVP of Hearst Magazines, and Vice Chairman of the National Magazine Company (NatMag), Hearst’s publishing business in the U.K. He is responsible for all of Hearst’s magazine operations outside of the U.S., which include operations in nearly 60 countries. From 2005 to 2009, he was the Chief Executive of NatMag. He joined NatMag in 1989 and served in various executive roles, including publisher of Company magazine, director of business development, and managing director. During Edwards’ time at NatMag, through a mix of launches, acquisitions, and joint ventures, the company grew from publishing nine magazines in 2000 to twenty in 2009. He spent the early part of his career at the Media Week Ltd. He holds a dual honors degree in Geography and Politics from Sheffield University. 

Pamela Fiori became Editor-at-Large for Town & Country – America's longest continuously published general interest magazine – in April 2010, after leading the magazine as Editor-in-Chief since 1993. Under her 17-year editorship, Ms. Fiori revitalized Town & Country by expanding its boundaries to include a greater variety of topics, voices, personalities, and departments, establishing Town & Country as the premier luxury lifestyle magazine in the US. In her new role, she will contribute to the magazine and be involved with expanding the brand. Prior to her achievements at Town & Country, Ms. Fiori worked at American Express Publishing's Travel & Leisure, which she edited for 14 years. In 1989, she earned the position of Executive Vice President and Editorial Director at American Express Publishing Corporation. She has also been Editorial Director of the biannual Town & Country Weddings and served on the Board of Directors of the US Fund for UNICEF, where she co-founded the UNICEF Snowflake Project. In addition to editing and humanitarian work, Ms. Fiori is an accomplished author. Her most recent books – In the Spirit of Capri and In the Spirit of St. Barths – chronicle the story of two of her favorite islands in the world. She has received many honors for her accomplishments, including the Matrix Award for magazine journalism from Women in Communications, Inc. – a prestigious honor that acknowledges outstanding women who have distinguished themselves in the field of communications, the Audrey Hepburn Humanitarian Award, and France's highest civic honor, the Chevalier de l'Ordre du Mérite.

Joseph Galarneau oversaw the technology, manufacturing, distribution, print, and digital advertising operations, and real estate functions for Newsweek. Prior to joining the magazine, he was the Chief Technology Officer for Thomas Publishing and served as the first CTO of New York Magazine. Previously, Galarneau worked for a global consulting firm, leading a practice focused on the U.S. magazine, book publishing, and commercial printing industries. He is an adjunct faculty member at New York University, where he developed the school’s first digital product management course. He has visited China annually since 2007 to teach digital media seminars to more than one thousand publishing executives. Galarneau is on the national advisory board for the Internet Strategy Forum. He received an M.B.A. from Duke University and a B.S. in physics from North Carolina State University.

Nick Grudin is a member of Facebook's Strategic Partner Development team based in New York, where he focuses on media partners in the news, sports, and lifestyle verticals. Prior to joining Facebook, Nick was VP of Business Development and Enterprises at Newsweek, where he oversaw new business initiatives and digital partnerships. Before Newsweek, Nick was a strategy consultant at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), and before that, he was a reporter at the Los Angeles Daily News. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, and The Chicago Tribune. Nick attended Pomona College, where he majored in Cognitive Science & Linguistics; he also received a Master’s in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School. 

Jon Hart practices law in Washington, D.C., where he heads the Media and Information Technologies group at Dow Lohnes PLLC. Hart specializes in the representation of media and technology companies on a broad range of commercial, transactional, operational, content, privacy, and litigation matters. He has represented businesses that gather and distribute news and information, sell advertising, market goods and services, and build community on the Internet for as long as there has been a commercial Internet. His clients include several websites and other digital publishers, newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations, and technology and telecommunications companies. Hart is counsel to the Online News Association and served on the faculty of the Stanford Professional Publishing Courses from 1994 through 2008. He has also written extensively on media and technology law. His book, Internet Law: A Field Guide (BNA Books), is in its sixth edition. He is a graduate of Middlebury College and Stanford Law School.

Will Hopkins is a specialist in magazine and book design. With his partner Mary K. Baumann, Will is currently creative director of American Craft magazine. He gained his early reputation working for Willy Fleckhaus at Twen magazine in Germany. He then worked as the art director of Look magazine in the U.S. He was a founding partner in the startups of American Photographer and American Health magazines. Hopkins has redesigned many magazines, including Forbes, Money, Sports Afield, GEO, and Food & Wine. He has also produced many photo-based books including King: The Photobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Sinatra: Intimate Portrait of a Very Good Year. Hopkins attended Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan and has taught at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota.

In 2011, Kelleher was named Advertising Age’s Publisher of the Year, which also ranked TIME #2 on the Ad Age A-list. Kelleher joined TIME in 2010 as Vice President, Publisher and previously was Vice President, Publisher for the Sports Illustrated Group. The first female executive to lead Sports Illustrated advertising sales in the 55-year history of the franchise, Kelleher is one of the industry's finest executives whose career achievements include substantial business success and an array of personal and professional honors. Prior to joining Time Inc., Kelleher was SELF Magazine Vice President and Publisher. She spent six years at SELF leading teams that achieved record-breaking ad page and revenue gains. She also represented Mademoiselle, Hachette Filipacchi, corporately, ELLE, Elle Décor, Mirabella and TEEN magazines. In addition to her professional success, Kelleher has forwarded many philanthropic initiatives with organizations involved with breast cancer, heart health, and other important causes.

Corby Kummer edits articles on politics and public affairs and writes a regular food column. He is also the editor of The Atlantic Food Channel, a blog devoted to food. He has been called "a dean among food writers in America" by The San Francisco Examiner. As a reporter and a writer he takes his work very seriously. Kummer has been a restaurant critic for New York Magazine and Boston Magazine. He is the winner of five James Beard Journalism Awards (most recently in 2008), and has been a finalist for the National Magazine Awards. Less than a year after its launch, The Atlantic Food Channel was nominated in 2010 as best magazine department on the Internet. Kummer graduated from Yale University in 1979.

As Deputy Editor, McCarthy works on magazine planning and strategy, oversees the operations of all editorial departments, and is responsible for the development of new platforms and brand extensions, from books to apps. Most recently this has included the creation of the magazine’s award-winning tablet edition for iPad, as well as other digital editions; the launch of a series of e-anthologies; and the development of the Goings On app. McCarthy has been a collaborator in the reconceiving of two other great titles for a new era. She came to The New Yorker from Vanity Fair, where she was Managing Editor for eight years. And she began her career as an editorial proofreader at Esquire magazine, where she went on to become Copy Editor and then Executive Editor, a position she held for five years.

After 20 years at Time Inc. and four years with People magazine in New York, Jane Nicholls returned home to Sydney, Australia, at the beginning of 2012 to join the launch team of the philanthropically funded news and features website, The Global Mail. A journalist for all her working life (until now!), she was on the 1992 launch staff of People’s Australian edition, Who, where she was features writer, news editor, deputy editor and, from 2002-07, editor. During her time with People in New York, in addition to editing sections of the weekly U.S. title, she oversaw its licensed editions in Australia, India and Greece, training the editorial teams to launch the latter two in 2008 and 2010 respectively. Nicholls worked with Time Inc. consumer marketing to develop VIPeople, a highly successful subscriber loyalty program for People, and also liaised between the magazine’s editorial and ad and production teams. In her early career in Australia, she worked on a wide range of print titles, including Overlander, Modern Fishing, Home Journal, Electronics Today International, Harper’s Bazaar, Mode, Follow Me, Plenty, and Good Weekend. Nicholls is a board member of the New York-based non-profit organization Girls Learn International. 

Bob Sauerberg is responsible for the company’s migration to a consumer-focused, brand-centric business model. Sauerberg also spearheaded Condé Nast’s digital integration and the development of the company’s tablet strategy that includes digital editions for the iPad, Kindle Fire and the NOOK. Prior to this position, Sauerberg was Group President of Consumer Marketing. Under his leadership, Condé Nast’s consumer marketing operations have led the industry in circulation growth and audience vitality as measured by the Audit Bureau of Circulations and Mediamark Research Inc. Sauerberg serves on the Executive Committee of the Magazine Publishers of America. He is a member of the board of directors for Reddit, Inc., a social news website, and serves as Chairman of the board of Next Issue Media. Sauerberg has an M.B.A. from Mercer University and a B.S.B.A. in Finance from the University of Arkansas.

Under Silberman's leadership, New York Media has grown its digital business substantially, more than doubling revenue and growing audience nearly fourfold. Silberman oversees strategy and day-to-day operations for New York Media’s digital properties nymag.com, vulture.com and grubstreet.com, with a staff of 90 across editorial, technology, marketing and sales. Silberman came to nymag.com from Rodale, where he was vice president and editorial director for Rodale Interactive. During his time at Rodale, he launched the Websites for Women's Health magazine and redesigned the Websites for Men's Health, Runner's World, and Bicycling magazines. Prior to Rodale, Silberman worked at MSNBC, most recently as deputy editor, East coast, partners & strategy, managing all MSNBC.com program production with NBC News and MSNBC Cable. He first moved to the digital realm in 1995, as a senior news producer for Microsoft, developing the MSNBC Website and its relationship to the cable channel and NBC News.

Richard Stolley has been a reporter, writer, bureau chief, senior editor, and managing editor at Time Inc. since 1953. He was the editor of three photographic books, including Photographic Histories: Life: Our Century in Pictures (1999). In 1974, Stolley became the founding managing editor of People, and after eight years moved over to the managing editorship of the monthly Life. He then was editorial director of all Time Inc. magazines before being named senior editorial adviser in 1993. Stolley is the past president of the Overseas Press Club and the American Society of Magazine Editors. He is also a current member of the board of the Lensic Performing Arts Center in Santa Fe, NM and the board of advisers at Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. He earned a B.S. and an M.S. from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. 

Peter Westerman overseas audience recruitment across all ZDE brands and lines of business, including digital events, face-to-face events, content syndication, lead generation, and publishing. He has had more than 20 years of experience managing all aspects of information technology-focused media businesses. His expertise includes online community building, development of partner ecosystems around technology platforms, and the architecture and execution of comprehensive results-oriented marketing communications programs. Mr. Westerman is a former publisher and group publisher of Dr. Dobb’s Journal, Software Development Magazine, Microsoft Systems Journal, and other IT-related publications. He has also launched and managed successful online and live events businesses, and held numerous senior direct marketing positions over the years.