Consumer Reports chief content officer Bounds is departing for Smart News
Gwendolyn Bounds
Gwendolyn Bounds, vice president and chief content officer at Shopper Reviews, is leaving the publication to develop into head of content material at SmartNews.
Abundant Jaroslovsky, vice president of articles and main journalist at SmartNews, writes:
I’m delighted to announce that Gwendolyn (Wendy) Bounds is becoming a member of our crew in a new position as Govt Director and Head of Articles. Wendy is joining us just after 8+ several years at Purchaser Studies, where she’s been Vice President and Chief Written content Officer. Prior to signing up for CR, she was a fixture at The Wall Street Journal (which, I swear to God, is not a prerequisite for currently being employed here, myself and Chris notwithstanding!). She held different senior roles at the Journal, which include tiny-business enterprise editor and multimedia columnist, while getting a person of its very best-recognised public faces through her regular appearances on CNBC, ABC’s Excellent Morning The united states and the Journal’s possess video clip platforms. (You can verify out some of her finest hits right here.) She’s also the creator of two publications, together with Little Chapel on the River, a e book about her personalized write-up-911 journey.
At SmartNews, Wendy will assume general accountability for content material advancement, plan, planning and execution, including the two the Content and Media Operations groups, and will report instantly to me. She will join senior management for our offsite later on this thirty day period in Hawaii and commence her new function in late September.
Wendy is a indigenous of North Carolina graduate of the UNC at Chapel Hill, and lives in Garrison, NY. She is also a aggressive obstacle-study course racer, which is … basically a fairly good qualification for a life in media/know-how these times. Be sure to be a part of me in welcoming her to the workforce!
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