RD Recap: Ricky Van Veen Joins Facebook; Paul Fichtenbaum Out at Sports Illustrated Group

The latest media hirings and firings.

Ricky Van Veen leaves CollegeHumor after nearly two decades to join Facebook. He’ll be head of global creative strategy, which we imagine is a high-paying position. “I’ll be working with all types of creators and organizations to figure out how best to use the biggest network in the world to better connect people with engaging and meaningful content,” he wrote in a Facebook post announcing the news. Van Veen started CollegeHumor in 1999 with some friends and sold it to Barry Diller‘s IAC in 2006.

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