Here’s a roundup of some of the latest news highlighting women’s roles in the evolving media landscape, including career moves and some recent controversy over the value of magazines that target a female audience:

  • Emily Lenzner has been named Senior Vice President of Global Communications at Atlantic Media. Lenzner, who has been running her own consulting business, replaces Linda Douglass, who is shifting into an advisory role at Atlantic Media. Lenzner was previously Executive Director of Communications for the Washington D.C. bureau of ABC News and was Managing Director at strategic communications consulting firm SKDKnickerbocker.
  • Shannon Rudd is now general manager/digital business development for Bonnier’s Men’s Group, which includes Field & Stream, Popular Science, Saveur, and several other magazines. Rudd was Digital Business Director for Bonnier’s Parenting Group before its publications were sold to Meredith in May.
  • Alison Brower has been hired as Editor in Chief of Hearst’s Dr. Oz-branded magazine, which is expected to debut in 2014. She comes from The Hollywood Reporter, where she has been Special Projects Editor since January. She was previously interim EIC at Seventeen, Executive Editor of Redbook, and Deputy Editor of Glamour.
  • Emma Angerer has been promoted to the position of Communications Director for National Journal. She had been serving as Editorial Booker at Atlantic Media.
  • Darcy Keller is taking on the role of Global Communications Director at the Financial Times. She has been with the company since 2007, having served as Deputy Director of Global Communications and Head of Communications in the Americas. Previously, Keller worked with The Paley Center’s Media Council think tank.
  • Suzan Gursoy has been promoted to Publisher of Adweek. She had served as interim publisher since February, in addition to her role as Integrated Advertising Director.
    Gursoy was previously Business Development Director at Women’s Wear Daily.
  • Elle EIC Robbie Myers

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    Women in Media Extra: There’s been some recent controversy over whether women’s magazine articles can be as “influential or important as what men’s and general interest magazines publish” and whether they can produce “serious” journalism. Elle‘s Editor in Chief, Roberta Myers, decided to tackle the issue head-on in her August Editor’s Letter. You can read more about her defense of women’s titles as vehicles for serious journalism in a Q&A with The Cut.

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