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 more than 4 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 London, Los Angeles, and Miami, and has editorial correspondents in major cities around the globe.
Billboard.com Staff
Lisa Ryan Howard
Publisher, Billboard
lisa.howard@billboard.com
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.
Jeremy Levine
Associate Publisher and Vice President of Sales
jeremy.levine@billboard.com
As Associate Publisher / V.P. of Integrated Sales, Levine oversees all advertising sales for Billboard.com, Billboard.biz, Billboard Magazine and all related products. Levine joined Billboard in September 2008 from Men's Journal magazine where he held the position of Associate Publisher. Prior to Men's Journal, Levine spent several years in the integrated marketing space creating online and cross-platform advertising programs for various Fortune 500 companies during time at Turner Sports and Promotions.com. Levine holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania.
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 most recently 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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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
Editor, Billboard.com
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Letkemann became editor of Billboard.com in June 2007 after heading Premiere.com. She was previously on the editorial staff of Spin magazine for several years. The Chicago native with an NYU journalism B.A. started out by self-publishing music zines and interning at the Chicago Tribune. She has also been an editor at Circus magazine, helped research music books from Vibe and Michael Azerrad, and has written for a variety of pop culture publications. Letkemann also co-founded Pearl Jam fan site TwoFeetThick.
Monica Herrera
Associate Editor, Billboard.com
monica.herrera@billboard.com
Before joining the Billboard.com staff in 2009, Herrera was an Online Editor at Latina, where she launched a music blog and covered entertainment and culture for the magazine. A former semi-professional dancer, she graduated from Brown University and was a celebrity/lifestyle publicist at Susan Blond, Inc. until 2007. Herrera's first published story was a 4-star review of Green Day's "Dookie" album, which she wrote in high school in New Jersey.
Mariel Concepcion
Associate Editor, Billboard.com
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Mariel Concepcion grew up in Harlem, N.Y., and joined Billboard.com in February 2007. The former Vibe online editor graduated from the New School University in 2002 with a B.A. in journalism. Her byline has appeared in such publications as Vibe, Vixen, Scratch, the New York Post, Upscale and Billboard magazine.
Jason Lipshutz
Editorial Assistant, Billboard.com
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Jason Lipshutz joins the Billboard.com staff 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
jillian.mapes@billboard.com
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
Lisa.binkert@billboard.com
As multimedia coordinator for Billboard.com, Lisa 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.
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.
Hanon Rosenthal
Video Director, Billboard.com
Hanon.Rosenthal@billboard.com
Hanon 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
Matthew.campbell@billboard.com
Matthew 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.