Publisher Nature Publishing Group, UK, has announced various editorial changes in Spektrum der Wissenschaft, its German science magazine. Dr. habil. Reinhard Breuer will resign as Editor-in-Chief effective December 31, 2010, and be replaced by Dr. Carsten Könneker.
Dr. Breuer will remain with Spektrum der Wissenschaft and, from January 1, 2011, will manage the newly created editorial development department. Dr. Könneker will also take over editorship of spektrumdirekt, in keeping with a new business strategy to concentrate editorial resources. The spektrumdirekt editorial department has been managed to date by Richard Zinken.
Dr. Könneker, physicist and scholar of literature, started his career as junior manager at Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck in 2000. Two years later he joined Spektrum der Wissenschaft.
Richard Zinken, currently Editor-in-Chief of spektrumdirekt.de and Manager Online, will be appointed Chief Operating Officer, heading the new IT and publishing services department. The realignment of business divisions reportedly became essential with the rapid growth of cross-media publications and expanded activities in custom publishing.
Spektrum der Wissenschaft in Germany is the largest entity of the international editions of Scientific American, which became part of NPG in 2009, after many years as a sister Holtzbrinck organisation.
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