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UBM Tech  just named Patrick MannionVice President/Brand Director Electronics Group reporting to Scott Mozarsky, President, Media and Partner Solutions. Mannion has risen rapidly in the ranks at UBM Tech after returning from a brief stint as Director of Content for Hearst Electronics Group.  He's been leading the charge at EDN.com since the acquisition of the title from Canon/Reed a few years ago.  He's fully engaged in the UBM Tech philosophy switch announced at the start of the year and he's a posterboy for the position that the company's philosophy is lacking in journalistic integrity.  I've not known many journalists who understand the ethics of the profession better. Mannion will oversee the electronics communities including EETimes.com, EDN.com, Embedded.com and, I assume EBNonline.com (although that wasn't specifically mentioned in the announcement, which gives me cause to wonder how long the title will last).  He will a...

It's like the good old days in B2B press with personnel leap-frogging from one  pub to another.   Patrick Mannion six months ago jumped from his post of editorial director of TechOnline at United Business Media to go take the newly created post of director of content at Hearst Electronics Group.Well, UBM thought that was a pretty neat idea and created a similar post for EDN and the Designlines.  Who would best fill that post then.... wait for it.... Patrick Mannion? That opens a whole in the staff over at Hearst that's being filled temporarily by Murray Slovick on a consulting basis, while they look for a permanent replacement. Director of content is a fairly new concept developed to handle the flood of information on the internet.  Where an editorial director sets policy direction for the editorial staff, the content produced by that staff is also under the supervision of the content director, whose job it is to coordinate and weave together that cont...