Afar Names Publisher, Plans Rate Base Hikes

A year since its launch into an economic headwind, experiential travel magazine Afar is shaking up its management again.
 
Afar had been without a publisher since January, when launch publisher John Sheehy left along with founding editor Susan West.
 
Now, the bimonthly is bringing in Ellen Asmodeo-Giglio as evp, publisher. Asmodeo-Giglio was launch publisher of The Wall Street Journal’s luxury lifestyle magazine WSJ. Earlier, she was svp, publisher of Travel & Leisure.
 
CEO/co-founder Greg Sullivan said he has no plans to bring on a new editor (a role he’s assumed himself) but Asmodeo-Giglio is building out her sales team with four new hires.