Youth Media And Marketing Movers & Shakers

Today we bring you another installment of Youth Media Movers and Shakers. We’ve culled through industry publications looking for the recent executive placements we think you should know about. If you have executive news that you want us to highlight in our next “Movers and Shakers,” email us.

Susan Shipsky is named VP Production for Turner Broadcasting’s Animation, Young Adults, and Kids Media Creative Group, which encompasses both on-air and off-channel creative departments. In her new role, Shipsky will be responsible for overseeing all video, print, special event and digital production, and post-production for Cartoon Network, Adult Swim and Boomerang sponsorship and collateral material. She will also supervise all on-air branding, promotion production, and post-production for Cartoon Network and Boomerang. She most recently was with creative digital studio MaxMedia, where she served as VP of Business Development. (Via Kidscreen)

Lynn Chwatsky is promoted to VP/Outreach Initiatives and Partnerships for Sesame Workshop. In addition to overseeing various Sesame Workshop outreach initiatives, Chwatsky will be responsible for developing and maintaining relationships with key strategic partners and organizations to further its initiatives across multiple media platforms. She was previously Assistant VP/Educational Outreach for Sesame Workshop, and prior to that, was an Account Executive with Grey Advertising. (Via Cynopsis)

Michael Chuthakieo has been named Executive Director of National Entertainment Sales at Pandora. He had been Regional VP of Entertainment and West Coast Sales at MySpace. (Via All Access)

Jamie Cutburth is named VP Ad Sales Marketing at Bravo Media. He had been VP of History Partnerships at The History Channel. (Via Mediabistro)

Jonas Larsen is promoted to SVP of Talent and Specials at Comedy Central. He had been VP of Specials there. (Via Variety)

Alex Kisch is promoted to SVP Business Affairs & Development at Vevo. (Via MediaPost)

Details names two new hires: James Oliver Cury becomes Online Editorial Projects Manager, responsible for all digital editorial product, including content partnerships, e-commerce, and app development; he was previously Online Editorial Director for Maxim. Rachel Rosenblit comes on board as Entertainment Editor; she was previously Associate Editor of Features at Elle. (Via Fishbowl NY)

Ben Smith has been named editor in chief at BuzzFeed, a site which tracks viral content online. Smith was previously a writer and blogger at Politico. (Via Medialife)