• October 13, 2008

Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia has named Gail Horwood to the newly created position of SVP digital programming and strategy.

Horwood will provide editorial vision and work with management to set the strategic direction for MSLO's digital properties, including marthastewart.com and wholeliving.com. In addition, she will work with the merchandising team on the retail component of the site.

Horwood brings more than 20 years of editorial experience at leading lifestyle media brands, including Epicurious, where she was a founding editor and helped spawn one of the first online foodie communities. She joins the company from InStyle.com, where she has served as executive director since July 2006. She has presided over digital creative operations, introducing products on mobile, video, ecommerce and social networking platforms.

She previously served as executive director, creative development at Time Inc. Interactive and vice president of global content at Zagat Survey. Prior to that, as editor-in-chief of Epicurious, she directed operations Web site, conceiving and executing on the site's innovative recipe experience.--Tanya Irwin