Steve Wasserman has been named executive editor-at-large for general interest books at Yale University Press. Wasserman, who worked at the Los Angeles Times and held several positions in publishing (at Hill and Wang and Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, among others), was most recently an agent at Kneerim and Williams. He will continue to represent a handful writers, including Christopher Hitchens, Peter Brooks, and Placido Domingo.
Gregory M. Britton, who has led the publishing program at the Getty Museum and related institutions since 2008, has been appointed editorial director at the Johns Hopkins University Press. When he joins the staff on May 16, Britton will become a senior member of the Press's executive committee and assume leadership of the books division's editorial department. He replaces Trevor Lipscombe, who had served as the press's editor-in-chief and was appointed director of the Catholic University of America Press last fall.
At Portfolio, Maureen Cole has been promoted to senior publicist. Cole has been at the Penguin imprint since 2007 and has worked on campaigns for such books as Geoff Colvin's Talent is Overrated and Eduardo Porter's The Price of Everything. Also at Portfolio, Christy D'Agostini has been promoted to publicist. D'Agostini joined the imprint right out of college in 2007.
