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Waks Joins Cumulus As SVP/Digital Partnerships

• Cumulus Media announced that Lisa Waks has joined the company as Senior Vice President, Digital Partnerships and Business Development,

• SiriusXM announced the acquisition of Conan O’Brien‘s Team Coco, including the critically-acclaimed hit podcast Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend, and

• Acast has promoted Jack Preston from Director to Global Head of Acast Creative, the in-house creative ad solutions team

• WNYC Studios announced that Kenya Young, Managing Editor for Collaborative Journalism at NPR is joining the team in the

• Liz Alesse has been promoted to Vice President of ABC Audio and will now oversee the division’s entire audio

• iHeartMedia, Inc. has named Sarah van Mosel as Executive Vice President of the iHeart Audience Network (iAN) — described

• Cumulus Media has promoted Brian Philips to Chief Content Officer, now responsible for content across all Cumulus platforms. Philips

• Cumulus News-Talk 890 WLS-AM/Chicago announces legendary Windy City political reporter Bill Cameron is rejoining the station as the producer

• Warner Music Group (WMG) unveiled its new podcast network, Interval Presents, which will produce multi-format, culture-forward audio content at

• As a rule we don’t cover a lot of podcast news in RAMP, mostly due to space limitations; however,