Salon Media Group announced the appointment of GEORGE HIRSCH to its Board of Directors. Hirsch replaces BRIAN DOUGHERTY. Hirsch, a magazine publisher for thirty-four years, is currently Worldwide Publisher Emeritus of Runner's World magazine at Rodale Inc.

Critical Mass announced that ROBERT MORRIS has joined the company’s Chicago office as Vice President, Consulting. Morris previously served as a Vice President, Client Partner in the Retail and Consumer Packaged Goods practice at Scient, where he was responsible for General Electric’s direct to consumer online initiatives. Before joining iXL/Scient, Morris was CEO of the Inmar Group.

BRIAN CROOKS has joined Ryan Partnership’s Ryan Interactive group as Creative Director, replacing RICK LAVOIE. Crooks joins Ryan from Agency.com, where he served as a creative director, group creative head for its Boston office for 3 years.

Horizon Media announced that CARMEN BURGESS has joined the agency as a senior buyer in the Los Angeles office. Burgess joins Horizon from Carat where she was most recently a senior buyer for the local broadcast markets. Her duties included negotiating TV, radio and cable time in several top 10 markets for clients like Jack in the Box, Quizno’s, Hyundai/Kia, Coors, Hardee’s and Pfizer. Prior to joining Carat, Burgess was a senior buyer at Focus Media.

ANDREA ALSTRUP, Corporate Vice President, Advertising, Johnson & Johnson, has been elected to Chair, The Advertising Council. A board member since 1995, Alstrup has served as Vice Chairman of the Ad Council since June of 2000. As Chair, she succeeds DAVID BELL, Chairman & CEO, The Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. and will serve in the position for one year.

Rodale has announced that ASEEM CHHABRA has been named Advertising General Manager of Organic Style and Organic Gardening magazines. Chhabra will manage overall ad revenue and expense accounting for the two magazines. He will also be responsible for strategic planning and financial forecast monitoring. Chhabra spent the last two years as a consultant in the publishing industry. Prior to that, he was the Director of Finance for Architectural Digest at Condé Nast.

Draft has hired LISA PENELTON as senior vice president of analytic services, where she will focus on integrating data, statistical modeling, and economic analysis into the marketing process for the company. Penelton returns to Draft after more than a year at GreySTAR, where she directed data strategy for BellSouth, Xerox and United Airlines since 2002. Prior to GreySTAR, Penelton was VP, director of analytic services at Draft from 1998 until 2002.

KDOC-TV has announced the appointment of TOM JIMENEZ as General Sales Manager. Jimenez has extensive sales and general management experience and previously led several stations from start up to success.

PETER BLACKLOW, the former senior vice president of marketing at Monster, has joined WorldWinner as their chief marketing officer. Blacklow will lead all marketing efforts for the company and build an identifiable brand, ensure a profitable consumer life cycle, maintain consistency across consumer touch points and manage key distribution relationships. Prior to Monster, Blacklow served as director of marketing for Converse.

MIKE ROSE has been named Vice President, Sales Manager for the Clear Channel Radio Sales Emerald Team in Los Angeles. Rose began his career as a Senior Account Executive with McGavren Guild Radio in 1995. In 1998 he became Sales Manager with MG/Susquehanna and in 2000 Rose joined RadioWave.com as Regional Sales Manager. In 2001, he joined Clear Channel Traffic as a Senior Account Executive, his most recent position.