| Kevin Frey 
To keep up with today's media landscape, public relations professionals need to know not only who is going where, but also how to communicate more effectively with those journalists, bloggers, and influencers making moves. This week's highlights include new editors at the New Republic, Newsweek, and Quartz’s Talent Lab, as well as a Q&A with Globe and Mail journalist Carly Weeks. Want even more media moves? Check out the latest issue of PR Newswire Media Moves on our Knowledge Center and follow @PRNMedia for daily updates. 1. New Republic: Former Rolling Stone Executive Editor Eric Bates is the new editor of the 101-year-old @NewRepublic magazine. His work history includes a stint as investigative editor at Mother Jones and as an editor at the Intercept where he coordinated the Edward Snowden leaked papers investigation. Bates' new role will have him at the helm of all matters with the magazine and its website. 2. Newsweek Magazine: Kenneth Li (@kenli729) is now managing editor at @Newsweek and is taking over for Kira Bindrim who left for Quartz (see below). Li was a founding editor at Re/Code which was purchased by Vox Media in February. Li will be in charge of the print magazine and the website. He also previously worked for Reuters, The Financial Times and The New York Daily News. 
3. Quartz: Former Newsweek Managing Editor Kira Bindrim (@Kira Bind) is now the new editor of Talent Lab at @Qz. Talent Lab is the incubator at Quartz that is designed to develop editors and writers around the world. The idea is to follow and discover emerging writers and then provide or commission them with assignments to grow them as journalists. Bindrim previously worked at Thomson Reuters as an online editor and also at Crain’s New York as a senior producer. 4. Associated Press – Augusta Bureau: Marina Villeneuve (@marinav13) has been hired as statehouse reporter at @ap in Maine and starts on May 23. Villeneuve formerly worked at New Jersey's The Record as a municipal reporter where she covered politics and government issues for the last 18 months. Before that she worked at the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting. Villeneuve began her career as a foreign correspondent at The Washington Post in Bogota, Colombia. 5. Yahoo! Canada: Allan Shifman (@AllanShifman) is the new managing editor of @YahooCanada. Shifman's role will include full editorial control over the Canada Finance page and he will also edit the Canada Finance news application edition of Yahoo! Shifman was promoted from his senior editor position to the new role. His previous experiences include being the assignment editor and online editor at Thomson Reuters where he helped edit the @ReutersUS Twitter feed. Influencer Intel of the Week: In the latest edition of Beyond the Wire’s Meet the Press, CNW speaks with Globe and Mail journalist Carly Weeks. Check it out to learn more about Weeks’ career as a health reporter and her PR tip for balancing the amount of time you spend working on your pitch’s story vs time pitching. To build relationships with the right influencers, you need the right monitoring tool. Download At What Cost? Justifying a Media Monitoring Service to learn how to select a solution that will provide you intel on which journalists and influencers to pitch and how to pitch them. Author Kevin Frey is a senior audience researcher for the Mid-Atlantic region. Each week, PR Newswire's Audience Research team makes thousands of updates to the media database underpinning our Agility workflow platform. Request a demo to learn more about Agility's media targeting, monitoring and distribution options. | 
