Spin Names New Editor-in-Chief
Posted in: UncategorizedSpinMedia has named Jem Aswad the new editor-in-chief of Spin, succeeding Caryn Ganz, who was ousted last week.
Mr. Aswad was most recently the editor of Billboard.biz and previously held editing jobs at MTV News and Time Out New York. “This is probably the job I dreamed about most when I first moved to New York as a 22-year-old freelance writer,” Mr. Aswad said in a statement. Joining Mr. Aswad as deputy editor will be longtime Spin contributor Rob Harvila.
Since acquiring Spin magazine last July and shutting down the print edition, SpinMedia — BuzzMedia at the time of the acquisition — has seen two top Spin editors to the door. Weeks after the acquisition, the company laid off 11 employees at Spin, among them high-ranking editorial staffers including editor-in-chief Steve Kandell.
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