Lead editorial team across multiple platforms toward production of content for direct and ad revenues, marketing/PR, membership and audience development. Oversee complex network of blogs covering multiple industry verticals.

Speak publicly, to the press and on air on digital media and community.

Optimize traffic through use of Web analytics, search engine optimization and marketing, RSS, e-mail and other PR, marketing and technological techniques.

Increase editorial coverage in key revenue-producing areas. Maximize editorial effectiveness to increase audience and attract quality advertisers.

Negotiate editorial and commercial partnerships.

Recruit and train staff to assemble peak performance teams.

Conceived, oversaw, launched and moderated highly profitable breakfast speakers professional series. Produced concurrent video.

Dorian Benkoil's Professional Web Page [Benkoil]

• Word is that the 126 Rivington kids don't have a TV deal yet. "The WB is courting them pretty heavily," reports an emailer who claims to know what he's talking about, "but so is HBO and the production company that put on Laguna Beach. Something should be worked out by week's end, I think, but it's not finalized yet."

• New Mediabistro editorial director Dorian Benkoil might have an even shorter tenure at the house of boas than we expected: Suggestion from a variety of tipsters — including some we actually know and trust — is that his departure wasn't exactly voluntary at either of his last jobs. Indeed, at Fairchild Publications, we're told, his tenure was only a few months, and his fate was sealed after a management retreat in Nantucket, at which he managed to insult nearly all the participants, including Fairchild CEO Mary Berner.

Earlier:
Rivington Street: Capeside on the Hudson?
Mediabistro Finally Announces New Edit Chief

Mediabistro's "Revolving Door" job-change report, last night: "Mediabistro.com has a new editorial director, Dorian Benkoil. He'll oversee daily operations and strategy for mediabistro's editorial properties. Benkoil was previously a digital media business consultant, the general manager of Fairchild's Internet division, an ABC News Digital managing producer, and a foreign correspondent, editor, and reporter for the AP and Newsweek."

Which we suppose means the clock started yesterday. Last six months in that gig, Dorian — that's till Monday, July 10, and, as we've said before, we can't imagine you'll make it that long — and lunch is on us.

We'll even let you write about who else was in the restaurant.

Dorian Benkoil [MB]
Earlier: Meet Your New Mediabistro Editorial Director

It's OK; we didn't know who he is, either.

But a bit of research quickly revealed that he's well qualified for the job. Indeed, you might say he's overqualified, having most recently been the general manager of the Fairchild Publications Internet division and, before that, the managing producer of ABC News Digital. He's even got his own media-news blog, MediaFlect, which, with its sober business analyses and conspicuous lack of exclamation points, is clearly the anti-Fishbowl.

Just a touch more research puts him at 45 years old — a solid standard deviation or two from Mediabistro's mean age — and the sort of man who's been accustomed to wearing suits, not boas, to work.

We give him six months.

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