SourceInterlink has relocated the offices of Modified, Modified Luxury and Exotics and Modified Mustangs Magazines, thereby cutting loose 17 staffers but retained their respective editors: Peter Tarach, Colum Wood and Huw lestyn Evans to work from their homes. James Walrod, who covered the auto industry with CBS for eight years prior to recent layoffs in Detroit is now freelancing and can be reached in Ann Arbor at jimwalrodAThotmail.com.
Richard Saxton, long time business news reporter for radio in the Los Angeles area has launched a new blog for Edmunds.com’s Car Stock Exchange. He describes it: “My blog is focused on news that relates to new vehicles which have corresponding shares that trade on the Car Stock Exchange, a fantasy game where traders buy, sell and sell short shares with $1,000,000 in play money with the goal of earning more than their peers by not only predicting stock action but first six month sales of new vehicles.” He can be reached at: biznewsguruATyahoo.com.
Veteran bi-costal auto journalist Zane Binder has selected Florida for his new home base. His email remains the same: opossumATix.netcom.com. . . . Mark Halvorson has relocated from the Northwest to a custom publisher in Texas but is interested in freelance assignments at: markAThalvorsen.name. . . . David Barnas resigned his Chrysler PR post on good terms, he says, and AWCom awaits word of his promised new email address. . . . Tom Kowaleski, who may not have parted GM PR under the best of circumstances, has rebounded to vice president of Corporate Communications at BMW of North America. Tom Salkowsky moves from manager of experimental marketing to manager of BMW corporate communications, with responsibility for the BMW automotive brand.
A five-line press release issued by Maserati PR in Modena, Italy announced that Marti Eulberg will become President and CEO of Maserati North America on June 1. She comes from Jaguar Cars of North America where she was vice president, sales and marketing. . . . Popular Hot Rodding magazine technical editor Steven Rupp has moved to sister publication Camaro Performers. The Camaro magazine has gone from a 6-time frequency in 2007 to a 9-times per year publication in 2008. Its steady growth required more staff, editor Nick Licata reports. . . .St. Louis Post Dispatch Business Editor, Andre Jackson departed the paper April 8. Daniel Wiese continues as the paper’s print and online auto editor.