KERRY BRIX is joining Mediaprise as Vice President Business Development. He had been National Practice Director Meritage Technologies.

CLAUDINE LANGAN has been promoted to regional manager of Cox Interactive Media’s eastern division. Langan was previously general manager of CIMedia's Northern Virginia web site, allnva.com.

GREG O'BRIEN General Manager, Western Region, at Captivate Network, Inc. Prior to Captivate, O'Brien was Managing Director of Multimedia Entertainment, an Internet music and entertainment venue.

PATRICIA NORWINE has joined FRONT DESK/LA as Advertising Director. In 2000, Norwine started her own consulting firm working on projects for Prince Albert's World Music Awards and KCET.

JOHN THORNE has been named Vice President/Director of Sales with the West Station Group of Continental Television Sales (CTS) in Los Angeles. Thorne began his career at Continental Television Sales in 1994 as an Account Executive in New York.

BETH WAGNER has been named Vice President/ Director of Sales with Continental Television Sales in Chicago. She had been Vice President/ Sales Manager at Continental Television Sales in Chicago.

MICHAEL COMINS has been named Corporate Vice President & Director of Media Services at online advertising, email and marketing agency NetPlus Marketing, Inc.. Most recently, he was Senior Vice President, Director of Media Services at HookMedia and Senior Vice President, Media Director for Digitas, both based in Boston, Massachusetts.

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SANDY REISENBACH will be stepping away from his day-to-day responsibilities as executive vice president, marketing and planning, at Warner Bros. at the end of the year to serve as an active consultant to the company.

Elise Adde, a communications executive with a 20-year career in network, cable and public broadcasting, was named Associate Publisher of The New Republic.