Category: PR Vibes®

Senior editor John Fontana has left Network World. John has covered IT since 1996. No replacement has been announced for his position. Senior editor Denise Dubie will take over all Microsoft-related coverage.

Research and consulting firm NPRG announced that Ed Gubbins, former executive editor for Telephony magazine, now known as Connected Planet, has joined the firm as a senior analyst. In this role, Ed will build on the extensive range of work he performed over the past decade at Telephony, and he will be involved in the […]

Christopher Nicoll, former VP of Telecom Infrastructure at Current Analysis, has joined Yankee Group as a Distinguished Research Fellow. Chris left Current Analysis to work with Alcatel-Lucent for four years as Director of Strategic Marketing and has been consulting for the past two years. In his new position with Yankee Group, Chris is overseeing the […]

Jennifer Valentino-Devries will join the blog Digits as a blogger covering technology. She previously served as an editor for general news at The Wall Street Journal Online.

A round of layoffs at the technology blog have resulted in job losses for contributing editors Dan Nosowitz, Chris Mascari and Sean Fallon. Sean continues to serve as the editor for the blogs Nerd Approved and Fashionably Geek.

Associate editor Daniel Dumas has been promoted to reviews editor at Wired.com. In this position, he will continue to cover gear and gadgets. There will be no replacement for the associate editor position.

Canon Communications LLC, a Los Angeles-based B2B publisher and event organizer, has acquired four media brands focused on the U.S. advanced design engineering sector, from Reed Business Information-US. The brands are: Electronic Design News (EDN), Design News, Test & Measurement World and Packaging Digest. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

Editorial assistant Chris Harnick has left his post at Mobile Marketer and Mobile Commerce Daily. Rimma Kats has been brought in to replace him as editorial assistant. Her areas of coverage are content, gaming, media, television, music and social networks.

Cara Sievers will be leaving the organization on February 26, 2010. She works as associate editor for Phone+, Billing & OSS World, VON and xchange. Caras areas of coverage include distribution channels, conferencing, telecom security and VoIP. No replacement has been named at this time.

Senior Content Manager, Beth Nicholson has left her position at Telecom Engine. She had only been with the publication for five months. She is now an events manager at Quantros Inc., a software and services provider for the healthcare industry. No replacement has been named; in the meantime website editor Samantha Bookman has taken over […]