NEW GUARDS: Dazed on Friday is anticipated to disclose the brand new group to guide the journal following the deliberate exit of Ib Kamara in June, WWD has discovered.
Succeeding Kamara, Ted Stansfield can be promoted to editor in chief of Dazed in June from his present roles as editorial director of Dazed Digital and AnOthermag.com and editor of One other Man.
The primary situation edited by Stansfield can be revealed in September.
Stansfield joined Dazed Media as a style author over a decade in the past earlier than rising by means of the ranks by rising Dazed’s viewers throughout digital and social channels. He’ll relinquish his roles on AnOthermag.com and One other Man beginning in June.
In a sequence of HR adjustments, Dazed additionally appointed Dominique Sisley editorial director, Serena Smith deputy editor, Imruh Asha style and picture director, Ana Takahashi magnificence editor at massive, Laura Pitcher U.S. editor, and Ester Mejibovski artwork director. Zara Mirkin will proceed her position as style editor at massive.
Dazed mentioned additional bulletins will comply with forward of Stansfield’s inaugural situation in September.
The important thing print management group can even embrace style options director Emma Davidson, magnificence options director Alex Peters, content material technique director Danil Boparai, tradition editor Halima Jibril, artwork and pictures editor Emily Dinsdale, and style author Elliot Hoste.
Jefferson Hack, chief govt officer and cofounder of Dazed Media, mentioned: “Dazed was based on a transparent function to empower the subsequent era by means of creativity. This new chapter celebrates our authentic function by selling the intense younger expertise on the coronary heart of our enterprise.”
Hack added that handing the editorial reins to Stansfield and his group “instantly rewards the individuals who use their day by day at Dazed to create space for undiscovered and rising voices, addressing pressing tales that matter to younger individuals in a turbulent world.”
“Bringing this skilled editorial drive — along with Imruh’s pioneering imaginative and prescient for style and Ester, who’s a vibrant new visionary — marks a shift within the historical past of Dazed. For the primary time ever, we can be giving carte blanche to 1 group on the centre of the model to specific themselves throughout Dazed’s print, digital, and social platforms,” he continued.
