Semafor appoints Pattni head of global communications

Meera Pattni

The subsequent excerpt sent out by Semafor founder and CEO Justin Smith reads:

I am happy to share with you that Meera Pattni has been appointed as Head of Worldwide Communications for Semafor.

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In this posture, Pattni will lead the company’s world communications approach from inception, serving as a important member of Semafor’s founding management team and doing work intently with Founder & CEO Justin Smith and Co-Founder & Editor-in-Main Ben Smith as they assemble a globe-course suite of talent in the run up to launching this fall.

Pattni previously served as Condé Nast’s Senior Vice President of Communications wherever she oversaw the company’s communications strategy for its about 30 brands such as Vogue and GQ in in excess of 30 marketplaces across Europe, APAC and Latin The usa. For the duration of her tenure, Pattni led communications for the company’s initially main global transformation in its 100-year record which unified its content teams and myriad international businesses as a result of a new international editorial technique.

Prior, Pattni invested approximately a 10 years at VICE Media Team where she oversaw North The usa communications for the company’s critical businesses and portfolio of brand names including its News, Digital and Tv divisions as Vice President, Communications. Less than her stewardship, she led the enterprise to 69 Emmy® nominations and 17 wins, overseeing essential partnerships with HBO, Hulu and Showtime and performed a seminal part in launching the award-winning VICE Information brand internationally.

She retains a master’s degree in Broadcast Journalism from City University, London and a bachelors of arts in English Literature from the University of Sheffield.

On becoming a member of, Pattni said: “The news landscape should be regularly evolving if we are serving our audiences accurately and that implies we will need a lot more leaders who are prepared to bet big on finding new models for our business. I’m very pleased to be joining a crew which is passionate about embracing alter for the duration of this vital second for media and culture at-big and to have the option to develop a environment-course news offering from scratch with some of the most innovative minds in our small business.”

Pattni will be dependent in New York and report to Justin Smith, Founder & CEO, Semafor. She begins later this month.

You can congratulate Pattni on Twitter.