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Jocelyn Schmidt has been promoted to v-p, associate publisher, Penguin Young Readers. She has been v-p, executive director, brand management, and joined the Group in 2010 to build a brand department.
Jen Loja, president of Penguin Young Readers, to whom Schmidt reports, said that Schmidt has become "an invaluable contributor to our success and an indispensable part of Penguin Young Readers. When she came to us five years ago, she was new to children's publishing, but her years of sales experience on the adult side at Random House helped her dive right in and make an immediate--and lasting--impact. Among many other initiatives, she established regular business reviews and goal-setting with more than 35 of our key brands. She quickly began communicating directly with our authors and artists about what was happening with their business within the larger house, and became a beacon and facilitator for all of our major literary estates and their caretakers."
In her new position, Schmidt will be take on "day-to-day responsibility for the overall publishing schedule of the Group," Loja added, and she will continue to oversee the brand management department.