New Exec Editor Named For Billboard

Tony Gervino

A three-month search to find a new editor-in-chief of Billboard ended Monday when Guggenheim co-president Janice Min announced she had raided a consumer-magazine veteran from Hearst for the post, according to The NY Post.

Tony Gervino was executive editor of Hearst Magazines International, where he was involved with a wide number of company-owned international editions at Esquire, Veranda, Seventeen and other titles.

Gervino is the second editor with a big consumer background hired by Min.

Previously, she hired Hugo Lindgren, the recently deposed editor of the New York Times Magazine, to be the acting editor of The Hollywood Reporter.

Gervino succeeds Bill Werde, a trade veteran, who was shown the door in early January after five years in the top post. The change atop Billboard comes at a time of big upheaval inside Guggenheim Media, owned by investment firm Guggenheim Partners, which also owns the Los Angeles Dodgers and Dick Clark Productions, among other holdings.