After serving as editor in chief of Ladies' Home Journal for more than 20 years, MYRNA BLYTH next week will be succeeded by veteran editor DIANE SALVATORE. Blyth will focus on her expanded role as editorial director of More, a lifestyle monthly for fortysomething women. Salvatore, most recently director of editorial operations at Hearst Magazines, has has held a string of jobs in women's titles, including executive director of Hearst's Marie Claire, executive editor of Good Housekeeping, and senior editor of Redbook. Ladies' Home Journal has also named MARY WITHERELL Managing Editor of the magazine. During her 20-year career, Witherell …

BURST! Media, a provider of Internet advertising services, has hired NORMAN HAMEL as the new Director of Inside Sales. Hamel has sixteen years sales/management experience, and was most recently the VP of Channel Sales for MonsterLearning with Monster.com.

ROB FINLEY, formerly of investools, has joined the ON24 team as a senior account executive.

Veteran television advertising sales executives GREG KARLIK and MATT BOXER have been promoted to local sales managers of New York's Spanish-language TV station, Univision 41. Karlik, who had been an account executive at Univision 41, has sales and management experience that includes posts at KBWB-TV and KRON-TV in San Francisco, WNYT-TV in Albany, and at the rep firm Petry Television. Boxer, who had been national sales manager at Univision's Miami TV station (WLTV), began his career in advertising as an account executive at Bozell, Jacobs, Kenyon & Eckhardt in New York and as local/regional sales manager at WDZL-TV in Miami.

SCOTT CRYSTAL, president/CEO of G+J USA's Business Innovator Group, comprised of Fast Company and Inc., will leave the company on July 26. Combined sales and marketing of Fast Company and Inc. will now be handled by CINDY SPENGLER, G+J's chief marketing officer. Fast Company co-editors ALAN WEBBER and BILL TAYLOR, and Inc.'s outgoing editor, GEORGE GENDRON, will now report to G+J president/CEO, Daniel Brewster. Publishers for the two titles will report to Dan Rubin, in his new capacity as executive vp.

The Advertising Council announced the promotions of three staff members: CHRIS VILLARREAL has been promoted to Campaign Manager; ELIZABETH KILCLINE has been named Associate Manager, Corporate Development; and ABHA PALMER has been promoted to Manager, Media Measurement and Analysis. Villarreal worked at Ogilvy & Mather as a member of the IBM account team before joining the Ad Council in June of 2001 as Assistant Campaign Manager. Kilcline worked as a sales assistant at New York magazine prior to joining the Ad Council in April of 2001 as Administrative Assistant, Corporate Development. Palmer worked for two years as an analyst at …

Slate.com, an online magazine owned by Microsoft Corp., has promoted associate publisher CYRUS KROHN to the position of publisher. Krohn, a former producer of CNN's "Crossfire" and "Larry King Live" television programs, will succeed SCOTT MOORE, who will become general manager of news and information for Microsoft's MSN Internet site. Before joining Slate, Krohn directed political advertising for the Microsoft Network.

ValueClick, Inc., the media and technology solutions company, announced that CATHERINE McCONVILLE has joined its media division as Director of Western Sales. McConville, former Director of Sales at SkyGo, Inc., a provider of mobile marketing, comes to ValueClick Media with over twenty years of sales and business development experience. She has also held sales positions for companies such as Ziff Davis, Individual.com, and UN/Miller Freeman. Also, BILL TODD and DAN DESMET of ValueClick Media have been promoted to lead the East Coast Sales Team. Nine new account executives have also been hired to manage campaign sales, development, execution and results …

DENIS GLENNON, a partner and managing director at Euro RSCG MVBMS Partners in New York, is taking over the Chicago office of Euro RSCG Tatham Partners as president. Glennon will report to Gary Epstein, who in May took over as CEO of Euro RSCG Tatham Partners, an entity that was formed at the same time and encompasses five Euro RSCG offices. Epstein formerly headed Euro RSCG's Chicago operation, which had been named Euro RSCG McConnaughy Tatham. In addition to running the Chicago office Glennon will be part of Euro RSCG Tatham Partners executive committee, which consists of the heads of …

EMILY DAVIS has been promoted to Vogue’s director of project development where she will oversee retail programs and the development and execution of special advertising sections. Davis has served as the magazine’s international fashion director since February of 1999. JEFFREY GREIF has been appointed Vogue’s international fashion director. Greif will oversee the magazine’s Italian and French offices. He joins Vogue from GQ, where he served as international advertising director.