Climbing the Ladder
Ken Wheaton, a presenter at this year’s Food For Thought, was promoted to managing editor of Advertising Age earlier this month. He has been with the publication for a decade serving in a variety of roles including copy editor, features editor and, most recently, assistant managing editor.
Ken’s innovative thinking and entrepreneurial spirit will surely assist the magazine’s efforts to help its readers understand and deal with the complexities within the advertising world while being on the forefront of new services to help advance the industry as a whole. He has already helped propel the magazine’s digital platform, being a commonly seen author of many Ad Age blog entries.
Ken’s creative spirit isn’t confined to just his day job. He is also the author of The First Annual Grand Prairie Rabbit Festival, a novel set in his native rural Louisiana that follows the trials and tribulations of a conflicted priest.
We congratulate Ken on this latest endeavor and wish to highlight the sentiments of David Klein, publishing and editorial director for Advertising Age, who said, “Ken [has] been [a] true linchpin over the past year keeping us operating at such a high level.”
