After being temporarily promoted to head up the Billboard group’s editorial activities, Billboard staffer Bill Werde has been given the mag’s editorial director position outright. Congratulations, Bill, and congratulations to whatever copyeditor was inspired to use the construction “Werde Upped” in the the headline of the promotion’s announcement. [Billboard]

 
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  1. revmatty  |   Posted on Aug 12th, 2008

    That sounds more like a Variety headline. I haven’t read billboard in years, but I recall it being much less funny than Variety.

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