CMP Media Inc. Names Robert Faletra Vice President/Editorial Director, Channel GroupEditor-in-Chief of Computer Reseller News Appointed Head of Editorial Operations for all of CMP's Channel Group Print and Online ProductsPRNewswire CMP Media announced that Robert Faletra, Editor-in-Chief of Computer Reseller News, has been promoted to Vice President/Editorial Director, CMP Channel Group. The announcement came during Comdex at CMP's annual breakfast meeting last week in Las Vegas. In his new position, Faletra will head up editorial operations for all CMP Channel Group products including print and on-line offerings. "In his seven years with the publication, Bob has done a great job ushering Computer Reseller News into new, strategic areas of coverage," said John Russell, Vice President/Group Publisher of the CMP Channel Group. "With his crisp understanding of the channel and of how to assemble a group of journalists, artists and production personnel, there isn't a person who works harder or is more deserving of increased responsibility and recognition," he added. Faletra has had a long, impressive and successful career at CMP. He joined the company in 1989 from PC Week, where he was a senior business editor. Prior to that, he worked as a daily newspaper reporter for seven years. He started his CMP career as a Senior Writer for Computer Reseller News, and was promoted to Executive Editor in 1990. Under Bob's leadership in the top editorial post at Computer Reseller News, the newspaper received consecutive best newspaper title awards from the Computer Press Association for the past two years, as well as a nod from Folio: Magazine in 1993 as best specialized computing newspaper. Faletra will retain his Editor-in-Chief title and duties at Computer Reseller News. He will report to John Russell. Published by CMP Media Inc., Computer Reseller News is one of the most respected business-to-business trade publications in the country. The Jericho, New York-based weekly newspaper has a circulation of more than 103,000, reaching influential readers from Wall Street to Silicon Valley with the product trends and industry news needed to sell comprehensive technology solutions. Computer Reseller News was awarded the 1995 Best Broad Interest Newspaper by the Computer Press Association, an annual event that honors the best in technology-related journalism. CMP Media Inc., now in its 25th year of uninterrupted growth, is the only provider of publishing, marketing and information services to reach the entire spectrum of the high-technology market -- the builders, sellers and users of technology. With projected sales of $420 million for 1996, CMP has marked a quarter century of success with an average yearly growth of 20 percent. All of CMP's publications and a series of innovative news and interactive services are available on the World Wide Web through CMP's TechWeb®(http://www.techweb.com)the/ industry's first free daily technology news and interactive services super site, since 1994. CMP Media is also the creator of NetGuide Live (http://www.netguide.com/), the first comprehensive daily online guide to the Net, and First-TV (http://www.first-tv.com/), the Internet's first 24-hour TV/video network. -0- 11/25/95 SOURCE: CMP Media, Inc. CONTACT: Leslie Dunbar, 516-562-7040, Barbara Kerbel, 516-562-5218, |