Hearst Magazines hired former Time Inc. executive JOHN HARTIG as Senior Executive, Magazine and Business Development. Hartig was formerly President of Time Inc.'s Parenting Group but left that post in mid-2001. Most recently, he was been scouting the magazine landscape for potential deals for private equity players.

D. SCOTT KARNEDY has been named Senior Vice President/ Director of National Sales, Infinity Broadcasting. Karnedy recently served as Vice President of AMFM, Inc., where he worked as Director of Sales for six of their New York City stations. Prior to that, he was Vice President, National Sales for 13 Knight Communications-owned stations in Boston. Karnedy was most recently Vice President of Sales for AOL Time Warner, overseeing two sales divisions out of New York.

KATIE COUNTS has also joined Horizon Media as a media planner. She joins from Universal McCann where she was most recently a media planner. Her responsibilities, for clients such as Kohl’s Department Stores and Lowe’s Home Improvement, ranged from creating local television, radio and national magazine plans to plans for store grand openings and sponsorship opportunities.

Interpublic Group of Cos.' Foote, Cone & Belding Worldwide, San Francisco, said it has hired a former Wieden & Kennedy Creative Director as its new Executive Creative Director. MICHAEL PRIEVE worked at four Wieden offices, beginning in the agency's Portland, Ore. headquarters while working on advertising for Nike. Prieve succeeds Tom O'Keefe, who moved to FCB's Chicago office as Executive Creative Director in October.

Also at Smithsonian, CARYL PATRICE HEARD has been named Sales Development Manager. Heard was previously a Senior Account Manager for Fast Company.

Bigfoot Interactive, a provider of strategic, ROI-focused email communication solutions and marketing automation technologies, announced the appointment of advertising and media veteran MICHAEL LOTITO to the company’s Board of Directors. Lotito’s distinguished career is marked by tenures at some of the world’s largest advertising and communications agencies, including Ammirati & Puris, McCann Erickson, Benton & Bowles, MediaPort and Initiative Media North America. Lotito founded MediaPort in 2001, for which he secured funding from The Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc., Omnicom Group and WPP. Prior to MediaPort, he served as President and COO of Initiative Media North America.

The director who will be most affected by current changes taking place at The Disney Company is STANLEY P. GOLD, the Financial Adviser to Roy E. Disney, also a board member and the nephew of Walt Disney. The board agreed that under its new guidelines, Gold would no longer be considered an independent director because of his business relationship with Disney.

The New York Times Advertising Department announced this week that JOHN BRITTON has been named West Coast Automotive Advertising Managing Director. In this role he is responsible for advertising sales for The New York Times Sunday Magazine's automotive business on the West Coast, including all Asian imports and Ford, Premier Auto Group, as well as the newspaper's automotive business. Previously he was Account Manager on the West Coast at The New York Times since October 2001. Prior to joining The Times, Britton worked in Los Angeles with Men's Journal magazine and USA Today, and began his career in advertising at …

Horizon Media announced that DENNIS CAMLEK joined the firm as Account Supervisor. Camlek, who will be managing The History Channel, A&E International and Florida’s Natural accounts, joins Horizon from Independent Media Services where he handled all of the account management, media buying and media planning activity for the VH1 account.

Also at Horizon: CINDY DUBOSQ joins as a media planner. She comes to Horizon from Bozell where she was most recently a media planner creating national television, radio, print and out-of-home plans for clients such as Bank of America and Lorillard’s Youth Smoking Prevention Program. Prior to Bozell, DuBosq held an assistant media planner position at Bates Worldwide, working on the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Co. account.