Consultants Suggest Hiring Journalists

This pretty much never happens, but after a six-month contract with Hanley Wood, consulting firm Innovation recommended that the trade publisher focus more on editorial.

As a result, Hanley Wood hired its first-ever senior-level executive to focus entirely on editorial: Bob Benz, president of content.

“The editors felt they didn’t have a voice in a lot of important decision-making that affected editorial and that they were represented in a proxy way,” CEO Frank Anton said of what Innovation found.

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