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| Kathleen Schmidt | |
Effective August 10, Kathleen Schmidt is joining Running Press as v-p, director of marketing and publicity. She has been publicity director for Weinstein Books, a joint venture of Perseus Books Group and the Weinstein Company, and handles corporate communication for Perseus, which owns Running Press. She will continue to handle Perseus corporate communications. Before joining Weinstein Books in 2013, she ran KMS Public Relations, an independent freelance publicity firm, and earlier was v-p and director of publicity at Atria Books, director of publicity at Dutton and Gotham Books and a publicist at Pocket Books.