Ad Age has promoted Michael Learmonth and Rupal Parekh to deputy managing editor roles.

A story on its website states, “Mr. Learmonth, who has led Ad Age’s digital coverage for the past three years, will direct editorial programming on Ad Age’s digital channels. He will continue to editorially direct the Ad Age Digital Conferences and other digital coverage. Ms. Parekh will be charged with building out Ad Age’s Creativity brand, working with the Creativity staff to elevate the importance of the subject in the broader marketing world. She will also continue to oversee Ad Age’s Agency News channel.”

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Learmonth joined Advertising Age in 2008 after working at Alley Insider, Variety, Reuters and The Industry Standard.

Parekh joined the publication in 2007 after two years at another Crain’s publication, Business Insurance.

Joel Hammond, who covers sports business for Crain’s Cleveland Business, is leaving the weekly business newspaper in a month for a job at the Cleveland Indians.

Hammond writes about the change, stating, “Why am I leaving? There’s no one answer, but at 30, the future looms large. Crain Communications is a healthy, debt-free company despite all the challenges facing print media, even in a niche like business publications. But there is uncertainty in the industry as a whole right now, with daily newspapers left and right, near and far cutting publication schedules and staff. More people than ever are consuming more media, but those getting paid to produce those media are getting paid less and less and facing uncertain futures.

“On the flip side, the unique and exciting opportunity to join a major-league club, with a tradition as rich as the Indians’, was what drew me to initial conversations with the team. I will be handling public relations, media relations and social media, with a dash of interacting with corporate partners and community relations folks and whatever else may arise; those duties obviously will broaden my professional experience and allow me to offer the team a unique perspective on some of its issues that perhaps officials there haven’t had in-house before. I’m excited to learn how the other side works and hopefully help the team re-connect with fans and other stakeholders along the way.

“Why am I telling you now? Because you’ll see a noticeable lack of Indians — and also baseball-related posts in this space, as you might expect; I don’t want to be accused of, or put the publication in a spot where it has to answer questions about, pumping up the team or casting it in a more favorable light. Conversely, I don’t want to be put in the position of criticizing my new employer; that’s bad business, as you all can understand.”

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Cotton Delo has been named San Francisco bureau chief for Advertising Age, a Crain’s publication.

Michael Learmonth of Ad Age writes, “When I first met Cotton, I was expecting someone male, maybe wearing seersucker, which is why I looked right past the woman sitting in Ad Age’s lobby for an interview a little more than a year ago. Once we got that confusion out of the way, she joined Ad Age as a reporter covering social media, which largely meant Facebook and Twitter, but also a wide range of topics dear to Ad Age, such as media, politics, privacy and startups — including the first forays into business for Foursquare, Pinterest and Tumblr.

“As head of Ad Age’s San Francisco bureau, Cotton will expand her coverage to Bay Area ad agencies, consumer-focused startups, ad tech and venture-capital firms. She will, to put it in old-fashioned journalism terms, ‘follow the money,’ which increasingly flows from the world’s biggest brands to tech platforms such as search, social and video to reach consumers. She’ll also cover the personalities creating change, so expect to see her at meetups, parties and events.

“Prior to Ad age, Cotton was northeast editor for AOL’s lifestyle and culture site, City’s Best. Before that, she joined a nameless, stealth-mode startup that would soon be known as Patch, where she helped launch three sites in her hometown of South Orange, N.J.

“She has been a reporter at The Jersey Journal (along with fellow Ad Age-er Jason Del Rey), covering Hoboken, transportation and writing the “Fix It” column. She speaks Portuguese and taught English in Vitoria, Brazil after earning a B.A. from Yale.”

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