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.

Allison Mooney is named Head of Trends & Insights for Google‘s Marketing Team. She was previously Director of Emerging Trends at MobileBehavior. (Via email)

Derry Wilkins has been named Publicity Manager, Children’s & YA, at Sourcebooks. She had been Manager of Children’s Publicity at Sterling Publishing. (Via Publishers Weekly)

Dory Foster has been promoted to VP, West Coast Sales, for The CW. (Via MediaPost)

Courtenay Palaski is upped to VP/Public Relations for Turner‘s Animation, Young Adults & Kids Media Group. Palaski’s expanded role includes oversight of all public relations strategies for Cartoon Network, Adult Swim and Boomerang series. She joined the Cartoon Network in 1998 and previously worked in development at TNT, publicity for Turner Pictures, and prior to that for the Samuel Goldwyn Company, and The New Yorker. (Via Cynopsis)

Tanya Giles is promoted to EVP of Strategic Insights and Research for the unit that encompasses Comedy Central, Spike TV and TV Land for MTV Networks Entertainment Group. Giles was previously SVP of Research and Planning. (Via Variety)

Joe Marchese has been named SVP of Digital and Marketing Strategy at Fuse. He joins the cable net from the digital advertising firm SocialVibe and SVnetwork. (Via Variety)

Walter Levitt has been named EVP, Marketing at Comedy Central. He had been chief marketing officer at Canwest Broadcasting. (Via Mediabistro, reg required)