Chief Marketer Staff

• Paradysz Matera VP Jennifer Lin Dies at 42

  Jennifer Lin, vice president of marketing information and research at Paradysz Matera & Co., died on Monday of cancer at age 42.

• Pennsylvania Consumers Tie Up Do-Not-Call Line

  Consumers swamped telephone and computer lines for Pennsylvania’s do-not-call list during its first day of existence. As of 5 p.m. yesterday, 206,000

• Teleperformance USA Acquires Comm.Comm

  Teleperformance USA has acquired the assets of Communications & Commerce (Comm.Comm). Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Teleperformance, which

• Labor Union Blasts Brylane

  Brylane Corp., a retail/catalog company, has been savaged by a labor union for its alleged anti-union activities. The company’s filing of a National Labor

• BusinessWeek Chooses VentureDirect to Manage New Statement Stuffer Program

  BusinessWeek tapped VentureDirect Worldwide to manage a new Monthly Statement Insert Program on Aug. 2. The business-to-business program will reach 140,000

• Alloy Buys YouthStream Media Networks for $7 Million

  Alloy Inc. has acquired assets of Youthstream Media Networks Inc. for $7 million.

• Dawn Zier to Run Reader’s Digest’s Circulation Operations

  Reader’s Digest Association, Inc., has named Dawn Zier vice president and circulation director for Reader’s Digest, its flagship publication. Zier had

• Jon Miller Appointed Chief of AOL

  AOL Time Warner Inc. has hired Jon Miller to lead the company’s America Online division, reports said. Miller will replace Robert Pittman as chief of

• Pennsylvania Launches Do-Not-Call List

  Four months after a new telemarketing law took effect, Pennsylvania has launched a do-not-call list. It will be maintained by the Direct Marketing Association.

• Standard & Poor’s to Monitor Interpublic Group’s Credit Ratings

  Standard & Poor’s has placed The Interpublic Group of Cos. Inc., on its CreditWatch list. The announcement came the day after Interpublic said it would