About Us
The world's premier music publication, Billboard has served the entertainment business since 1894. Beginning as a weekly for the billposting and advertising business, Billboard and its popular music charts have evolved into the primary source of information on trends and innovation in music, serving music fans, artists, top executives, tour promoters, publishers, radio programmers, lawyers, retailers, digital entrepreneurs and many others.
As Billboard's consumer-faced online home, Billboard.com features an extensive array of searchable, playable charts, breaking music news, artist interviews and exclusives, news, video and more. Launched in 1995 as Billboard Online, Billboard.com now attracts ten million unique visitors each month in more than 100 countries and has become the de facto digital destination for popular music.
Billboard is headquartered in New York with bureaus in Los Angeles and Miami, and has editorial correspondents in major cities around the globe.
Billboard.com Staff
Lisa Ryan Howard
Publisher, Billboard
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Lisa Ryan Howard is Publisher of Billboard, based in our New York office. Previously, Lisa was Senior Vice President, Chief Revenue Officer of Fairchild Fashion Group, the business media division of Condé Nast. There she managed all publishers and sales division heads across multiple media. Previously, Lisa was Vice President, Interactive, for Condé Nast Media Group, the corporate sales and marketing division of Condé Nast. With 18 years of strategic media experience, Lisa's additional positions have included Vice President, Publisher of Condé Nast's Style.com and Men.Style.com sites, as well as account planning, and sales and marketing management roles at companies ranging from an Internet start-up to Time Inc. and Disney/ABC/Cap Cities. She lives in Flatbush, Brooklyn with her husband Manny Howard and their two children.
Bill Werde
Editorial Director, Billboard
As Billboard's Editorial Director, Bill Werde leads the editorial strategy and vision for the brand, which includes the weekly publication, websites (Billboard.com and Billboard.biz) and other digital content offerings, as well as industry-leading conferences and events. Werde joined Billboard in July 2005 as Senior News Editor and has steadily climbed the ranks of the organization, having been promoted to Deputy Editor and later Executive Editor of the brand. Prior to Billboard, Werde was the Associate Editor for Rolling Stone. Before that he worked as a freelance journalist for a number of publications including the New York Times, Washington Post, Village Voice and Wired Magazine on matters of culture, politics and technology.
George White
General Manager, Billboard Digital
George White is General Manager of Billboard Digital, responsible for driving continued growth and success at Billboard.com, Billboard.biz, mobile applications, the Billboard API, and all aspects of Billboard's digital businesses. George brings over 17 years of digital media experience to the company. He previously served as Senior Vice President, Strategy & Product Development at Warner Music Group, where he led the development of the company's digital and mobile products, worked with iTunes, wireless carriers and a host of digital services to develop new channels for delivering music, and co-founded the digital media package standard-setting organization Connected Media Experience. Throughout his career at WMG, Atlantic Records, and The Voyager Company, he has worked with a diverse array of artists (everyone from Laurie Anderson and Hootie & the Blowfish to T.I. and Led Zeppelin) to help bring their music to life through web sites, enhanced CDs and CD-ROMs, DVDs, games and mobile applications.
M. Tye Comer
Editor, Billboard.com
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@myte on Twitter
M. Tye Comer came to Billboard in 2009, after working closely with the .com team during his two-year tenure as Editorial Director of Nielsen's Entertainment, Media and Visual Arts online properties. Previously, Comer worked as Editorial Director of AOL Music, and also held the title of Associate Editor at the CMJ New Music Report from 1995-2000. He worked as a freelance journalist for a number of publications including Spin, Paper, URB and The Source on matters of music and pop culture.
Jessica Letkemann
Managing Editor, Billboard.com
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@Letkemann on Twitter
Letkemann became editor at Billboard.com in 2007 after heading Premiere.com. She was previously an editor at Spin magazine for several years. She has also been an editor at Circus magazine, helped research music books from Vibe Magazine and Michael Azerrad, and has written for a variety of pop culture publications. In addition, Letkemann co-founded long-running Pearl Jam fan site TwoFeetThick.com. The Chicago native and NYU journalism alum got her start self-publishing music zines and interning at the Chicago Tribune.
Rachel Been
Art Director, Billboard.com
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Rachel Been is the art director of Billboard.com. Previously, she was an editor and photographer at AOL's food, style, music and Latino web sites. She has worked with Magnum Photos, TimeOut Magazine and the Smithsonian Institution.
Marc Schneider
News Editor, Billboard.com
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Marc Schneider joined Billboard.com in July 2011 after spending eight-or-so years in various posts at AOL, including senior positions at AOL News and PopEater.com, where he spearheaded original news coverage for the since-shuddered pop culture news site. The St. Louis native and news/music/politics junkie is thrilled to not have to cover the daily doings of Kim Kardashian anymore, unless of course she takes up a singing career.
Erika Ramirez
Associate Editor, Billboard.com
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Named associate editor at Billboard.com in 2011, Ramirez spearheads The Juice, Billboard.com's hip-hop/R&B news and gossip column. Before coming to Billboard, she was previously a researcher at Latina magazine, a freelance writer for MTV.com and an editor-at-large at Honeymag.com. She has also written for other publications and websites, including Rolling Stone and New York magazine.
Jason Lipshutz
Editorial Assistant, Billboard.com
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Jason Lipshutz joined the Billboard.com staff in 2010 as an editorial assistant after previously interning and contributing freelance material to Billboard. Before receiving a BA in English from The College of New Jersey, Lipshutz earned his big break into journalism while interning at Seventeen.com. The New Jersey native has contributed music-related articles for various publications since 2008, including Spinner, The Hollywood Reporter, Relix.com and CriticalMob.com. For over two years, Lipshutz hosted a radio show titled "FutureJason/LoveSounds" at TCNJ's college radio station.
Jillian Mapes
Editorial Assistant, Billboard.com
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A former Billboard freelancer and intern, Jillian Mapes joined the Billboard.com staff full-time in September 2010. Before that, she worked as a features reporter for the Indianapolis Star, as well as a digital manager/designer at a booking agency, Blackout Booking. Her byline has also appeared in Paste Magazine, AOL Music, Under the Radar and Metromix, among other outlets. A Youngstown, Ohio native (yes, just like the Springsteen song), Mapes graduated in 2010 from Ohio University's E.W. Scripps School of Journalism.
Lisa Binkert
Multimedia Coordinator, Billboard.com
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As multimedia coordinator for Billboard.com, Binkert books artists for appearances on a variety of programming initiatives both in studio and in the field. Prior to joining the .com team, Lisa worked in video promotion at Universal Republic Records and also helped behind-the-scenes at Sony Music with the VEVO launch. She loves Led Zeppelin, Brooklyn and cheese.
Hanon Rosenthal
Video Director, Billboard.com
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Now based in Los Angeles, Rosenthal joined Billboard in 2008 and has grown with the organization as a producer, videographer and editor of Billboard.com's premier video content. Prior to Billboard, Hanon created award winning marketing, style and special event videos for fashion, design and non-profit clients in New York City.
Matthew Campbell
Video Editor, Billboard.com
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Campbell began his work at Billboard.com in 2006 with Billboard's very first web series. After getting his BFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, Matt officially joined the organization in 2008 as an editor, videographer, and animator. Prior to Billboard, Matt worked as a cinematographer and animator for a number of short films and music videos. His work has aired on Sesame Street, the National Geographic Channel, and Fuel TV.