With Sale of LJ and SLJ, PW To Stay the Course

Current staffers named publisher, editorial directors

-- Library Journal, 03/01/2010

With the sale of Library Journal and School Library Journal, what happens to longtime sibiling publication Publishers Weekly?

PW reports: 

Jeff DeBalko, president of Business Media at Reed Business, followed [the] 9 a.m. corporate memo with a reorganization at PW, naming Cevin Bryerman, formerly associate publisher at PW, to the publisher's post, replacing [Ron] Shank. Jim Milliot and Michael Coffey, formerly business and news director and executive managing editor, respectively, will now serve as co-editorial directors.

Bryerman, who has been with the company for 22 years, said, "Everything at PW will proceed business as usual and I am committed to PW going forward.

For more, see PW