Ex-Reader's Digest Editor-in-Chief Jackie Leo Joins iAmplifly.Com
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Steve Cohn

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Jackie Leo, whose six-year stint as Reader's Digest editor-in-chief ended in November when Reader's Digest chairman/ceo Mary Berner replaced her with Peggy Northrop (ex-More editor-in-chief; see min, November 12 and 19, 2007), joined online publisher/syndication network iAmplify.com as senior advisor/business development consultant on February 4. That iAmplify.com is a conduit for paid content (includes audio and video) for authors/celebrities fits Leo's background at RD (which condensed outside articles until Leo's change to original content) and at her 1999-2001 stint as Meredith Interactive Services editor-in-chief. Leo also launched Child (1986) and is a past Family Circle editor-in-chief (1987-1994), Good Morning America editorial director (1994-1997), and Consumer Reports editorial director.

Leo, iAmplify.com president David Naggar (ex-Random House Audio), and senior advisor Michael Wolf (ex-MTV Networks president/coo and author of the Random House-published The Entertainment Economy: How Mega-Media Forces Are Transforming Our Lives) are new hires of brothers/cofounders (2004) Murray and Jack Hidary. We are told they they first reached out to Leo to negotiate a partnership with RD (when she was there), and, as fate would have it, ended up hiring her. Ditto with Naggar, as the Hidarys worked with him at Random House.

For more,  see the  February 11, 2008,  min.

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