TV Guide Names Debra Birnbaum EIC

TV Guide today (May 6) continued its high-level shakeup, installing executive editor Debra Birnbaum as editor. She succeeds Ian Birch, who was shown the door last week when the title’s sale was completed. Also elevated was Craig Tomashoff, to executive editor, from West Coast bureau chief.

In a company announcement, Birnbaum said she would expand on its breaking news coverage of show and their stars and place more emphasis on editorial opinion in its pages.

The title’s long-term future is up in question, however, as new corporate parent Macrovision Corp.,

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