Hearst Magazines has named CosmoGirl! founding editor in chief ATOOSA RUBENSTEIN editor of Seventeen.

LAURA FERNANDES has been named Senior Account Executive with Katz Radio in Los Angeles. Fernandes joined Katz Radio in June of 2000. After her completion of the Katz Radio sales training program, she was promoted to Account Executive and began selling in August of 2000. In July 2001, Fernandes joined the Katz Radio Los Angeles team. At Katz Radio in New York, KATIE IAMELE has been named Senior Account Executive. Iamele joined Katz Radio in June 2000. In August 2000 she completed the Katz Media Group training program and became an Account Executive, her most recent position.

FRANK M. SMITH has been named Regional Sales Manager of Entrepreneur Media. Smith joins Entrepreneur from Time4Media, where he was the Senior Account Manager for Yachting, MotorBoating and Salt Water Sportsman magazines. Previously Frank was the Senior V.P./New York Sales Director at Wilton Publishing.

Intrapromote has named ERIK DAFFORN Vice President of the company. Dafforn moves up from his former role as Corporate Communications Director, where he supervised all client-side SEO copywriting as well as leading key accounts.

Meredith Corporation announced that LINDA WITULSKI has been named Detroit Manager for MORE and Country Home magazines. Witulski comes to Meredith from the Detroit office of Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S. where she served as the VP Sales Director for 18 publications. In that role, she oversaw all marketing and promotion and was responsible for automotive and new business in the region.

The Golf Channel announced the hiring of KEVIN BYRNES as vice president of sponsorship sales. Byrnes will be responsible for managing and developing new business and expanding the network's revenue opportunities. Most recently, he was vice president of sales for WTVJ-TV, Miami's NBC affiliate. Also joining the network is JIM BEALL, who will serve as an account manager, sponsorship sales covering the central region of the United States. Beall most recently worked for National Cable Communications in Chicago where he sold local market advertising for cable networks.

COREY WILLIAMS has joined Silverpop as Vice President of Enterprise Solutions and JERRY PORTER as joined the company as Vice President of Production. Williams previously worked as the Regional Vice President of Sales for CheetahMail. Prior to joining Silverpop, Porter was the Regional Director for Cable and Wireless America where he managed the business and technical delivery operations of a 24/7 Internet data center.

Giant Ideas has announced the hiring of STAN MUSCHWECK as Executive Vice President. Muschweck recently left the same position at Ten/United, where he was responsible for accounts such as Heinz, Sony and SuperValu. He will be responsible for developing new business and managing the account supervision department at the agency.

SONJA YOUNGWITH has joined NKH&W as Associate Media Director. She will assist in the supervision of all media planning for the agency as well as working with specific clients. Most recently, Youngwith worked at Starcom MediaVest Group/Leo Burnett, Chicago, where she managed the media for several major consumer/packaged goods brands.

TIM BOWLES has become a consultant to The NPD Group. In addition to serving on the firm’s Executive Committee, Bowles will spearhead several key strategic projects for the firm. Most recently, he was Group President, International Operations for Information Resources Inc. (IRI). Bowles also served as Chief Executive of MRB Group, Managing Director of Audits of Great Britain (AGB) and Managing Director of Research Surveys of Great Britain.