Following a recent Time Inc. corporate reorganization, People and Entertainment Weekly Exec VP & President RICH BATTISTA will add oversight of the Time Inc. Sports Group and Sports Illustrated. SI Group Editor PAUL FICHTENBAUM and Publisher BRENDAN RIPP will each report to Battista, who joined Time Inc. last spring after serving as Mandalay Sports Media CEO (Eric Fisher, Staff Writer).
EXECS: The AAC named Univ. of Notre Dame Assistant AD/Media Relations BERNADETTE CAFARELLI Associate Commissioner/Communications (AAC)....Learfield Sports named Turner Senior Dir of Entertainment Marketing for TNT and TBS KEISHA TAYLOR Senior VP/Integrated Marketing and 76ers Manager of Corporate Development PAUL BECKLES GM for its Drexel Univ. Sports Properties team (Learfield)....Mississippi Sports HOF & Museum Exec Dir RICK CLEVELAND is "stepping down" and "will be succeeded" by COO BILL BLACKWELL. Cleveland has held the role since '12 and "will remain as the MSHOF's historian and will continue to work in community and media relations and in fund-raising efforts" (CLARIONLEDGER.com, 1/5)....Heartland Park Topeka, which was "added back onto the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Series schedule last month," named TODD STEPHENS GM and VP/Facilities & Operations (KCSTAR.com, 1/5)....The Galaxy promoted BRENDAN HANNAN to VP/Communications, Marketing & Digital (TWITTER.com).
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