FOX News Channel has named SETH HITTMAN national director of digital media sales. In addition, COURTNEY DUBIN joins FNC as manager for sales marketing and ALEXIS GOLDSTEIN joins as an account executive.

PointRoll has named SHANNON THOMPSON as director of channel development. Thompson previously inaugurated and rolled out the use of rich media at Yahoo! where she built and managed the ad technologies team.

MARIAM DILAWARI has joined Dentsu America, New York, as a media supervisor on the Canon account. She was previously a media strategist at Media Kitchen, New York.

KARIN LAFRAMBOISE, most recently advertising operations manager at EDMC, has joined Smith Brothers as director of traffic and production.

ED SALVATO, former travel editor of PlanetOut Inc., was named editor in chief of The Out Traveler and corporate director of travel media.

SCOTT PATERRA has joined GameFly to launch an Ad Sales group. He recently served as the VP of ad sales at IFILM.

SFGT has hired BEN MALLORY as creative director. He will lead the creative development of digital products in SFGT's technology strategies division.

KATIE WALTON has joined M&C Saatchi New York as account director to service the PODS business, along with newly acquired agency accounts. Most recently she was vice president, director of account services at KraftWorks, where she led Bali, Calvin Klein, Haynes, Playtex, Speedo, and Wonderbra.

DAN CAMPBELL, most recently group director, advertising & media at InsightExpress, was named vice president sales for Kaava Corporation.

YURI SALNIKOFF has joined R/GA as managing director, client services, a newly created position. Salnikoff will lead the Nokia account. Most recently, he was vice president, managing partner, of Agency.com’s New York office, responsible for all digital marketing activities and operations.