GARY YIATCHOS joins Goody’s as senior vice president and chief marketing officer; THOMAS HUGHES joins as senior vice president of human resources; and LORI HORN as group vice president, merchandising.

TOM COSGROVE has been named senior vice president and general manager, The Science Channel. DEENA EDWARDS was elevated from director of program planning to vice president, integrated program and promotions. JEFF HASLER was promoted to senior vice president of production and development and MARY DONAHUE and LIZ BRACH were elevated to vice presidents, creative content.

The VIA Group hired JEANNE MURPHY as a public relations client strategist.

JULIE FUOTI has been promoted to vice president, client solutions of Meredith 360°. Most recently, Fuoti served as executive director of marketing.

PUNCHALI KHANNA has been appointed account manager at REDBOOK magazine. Khanna will oversee the advertising for New York based home, CE/Tech, photo, finance and auto categories.

WhitePages.com named JENNIFER FRAUM as a junior account executive for the east coast. Previously, she was a digital account executive at NBC Universal for its local television station Web sites.

Mandalay Pictures named ELIZABETH STEPHEN as president of Mandalay Television. In addition, ROBIN BUDD was named senior vice president and DAVID LEVINE was appointed as vice president.

Lopez Negrete Communications named RANDY STOCKDALE as executive group account director. Stockdale will oversee the strategic management of the company’s Visa USA, Chili’s and Microsoft accounts.

MSG Media hired MELISSA CHUSID as director, talent relations and development; STACI DUNBAR as senior coordinating producer, original programming, features and post production; JEFF FILIPPI as senior coordinating producer, MSG remote and classic programming; and lastly promoted DENISE GIORDANO to director, programming and acquisitions.

Midwest Living magazine named ELAINE PURNELL as national advertising director. Purnell joins the magazine from Woman’s Day where she was Midwest advertising director.