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HEARST MAGAZINES PROMOTES JEFFREY W. HAMILL TO EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, HEARST INTEGRATED MEDIA

Friday 24. August 2012 - Jeffrey W. Hamill has been promoted to executive vice president, sales and marketing for Hearst Integrated Media, the corporate sales and marketing unit of Hearst Magazines, today announced Michael A. Clinton, the company's president of marketing and publishing director. Previously, Hamill was senior vice president, advertising sales and marketing for the magazine division of Hearst Corporation since January 1988. The promotion is effective immediately and he will continue to report to Clinton.

Hamill’s role involves managing Hearst Integrated Media, which oversees all group advertising sales and marketing efforts for the company’s 20 consumer magazine brands, as well as the corporate research group and the corporate direct response team. His department also creates customized integrated marketing programs with major advertisers utilizing Hearst-owned digital services agency iCrossing and Hearst Digital Media.
“Jeff has been an incredible asset to Hearst for nearly 30 years and instrumental in helping us drive advertising revenue on the print and digital front from our largest clients,” Clinton said. “He has a stellar reputation both inside and outside the company and promotion to EVP is well-deserved.”
Hamill joined Hearst Magazines in 1982 as a promotion assistant at Popular Mechanics and is a graduate of the division’s advertising sales training program. In his Hearst career, he has served as advertising director of Redbook and Cosmopolitan and associate publisher of Good Housekeeping.
A native of Durham, N.C., Hamill graduated from Washington & Lee University with a bachelor’s in 1981. Hamill serves on the board of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation in New York, the operating committee of the Magazine Publishers Association and the Media Action committee of the Ad Club. He lives in Darien, Conn.