Marc Weidenbaum

Marc Weidenbaum
Born	August 3, 1966
Residence	San Francisco
Nationality	US
Alma mater	Yale University
Occupation	editor
Known for	Magazine editing
Home town	Huntington, New York
Website
http://www.disquiet.com

Marc Weidenbaum (born 1966) publishes a webzine, Disquiet, about electronic ambient music and has contributed to the scientific journal Nature upon this subject. He was also a vice-president of magazines and an editor-in-chief for two of Viz Media's magazines.

Career

Prior to his current position, he was a laundry room attendant at summer camp; an office manager at a graphic design company; a senior editor at Tower Records' Pulse! magazine and the editorial director for music at citysearch.com.^[1]

At Viz Media he was the managing editor of Shonen Jump.^[2] and was then promoted to editorial director after helping launch the Naruto Collector magazine. Later he became vice president and editor-in-chief of both Shonen Jump and the sister magazine Shojo Beat.^[2][3] He left the company in February 2009.^[4]

Writing and editing

In 1991, he wrote for Pulse! upon the popularity of Gregorian chants with college dope-smokers.^[5] Pulse! magazine published a monthly cartoon and his editorial policy was to ask artists to submit three strip cartoons to choose from.^[6] He now writes for the journals Nature and his web magazine Disquiet on the subject of ambient sound and experimental music.^[7]

References

1. ^ Marc Weidenbaum (February 5, 2006), Off topic, four things, http://disquiet.com/2006/02/05/off-topic-four-things/ 
2. ^ ^{a b} Marc Weidenbaum Named V.P. Magazines, ICv2, 2008-11-16, http://www.icv2.com/articles/home/9632.html, retrieved 2008-12-09 
3. ^ Viz Seeks Original Comics, ICv2, 2008-07-14, http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/12900.html, retrieved 2008-12-09 
4. ^ VP/Shonen Jump EIC Weidenbaum Leaves Viz (Updated), Anime News Network, 2009-02-13, http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-02-13/vp/shonen-jump-eic-weidenbaum-leaves-viz, retrieved 2009-02-13 
5. ^ Chuck Eddy (1997), The Accidental Evolution of Rock'n'roll, pp. 148, ISBN 9780306807411, http://books.google.com/?id=ybPb6ioa6FQC 
6. ^ Sam Henderson (2005), Humor Can Be Funny, ISBN 9781891867415, http://books.google.com/?id=DoBQAAAAMAAJ 
7. ^ Marc Weidenbaum (2008), "Mix and mash-up", Nature 453 (7191): 33, doi:10.1038/453033a, http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v453/n7191/full/453033a.html 

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