Dave Kurns
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Dave Kurns is the Editor in Chief of Meredith Interactive Media, which is part of the Publishing Group within Meredith Corporation.
He is responsible for directing all content and strategic initiatives for Meredith's consumer Web sites: Better Homes and Gardens online (BHG.com), Ladies' Home Journal online (LHJ.com), and American baby online (americanbaby.com). This includes creating the editorial vision and direction, strategic development, executing partnerships, and overseeing development of editorial applications for the sites.
He is responsible for 22 members of the creative staff, located in New York City and Des Moines, Iowa.
After nearly 10 years as a newspaper reporter and editor, Kurns joined Meredith in 1989 as a copy editor for the Better Homes and Gardens® Special Interest Publications. After being promoted to copy chief, he was named assistant managing editor of the Food, Garden, and Special projects departments of SIP. In 1994, he was one of three staff members to launch Meredith New Media. Days thereafter, he began work on an electronic magazine project - what became Meredith's first commercial Internet site, @griculture Online. Since the launch of Better Homes and Gardens online in 1996 and more than 20 other Meredith sites, he now helps conceive and direct new editorial and community features that drive traffic, registrations, and advertising sponsorships to the largest Meredith consumer Web sites.
Kurns is a 1982 graduate of Iowa State University in journalism and mass communications, with a minor in business.
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