What a difference a weekend can make.
On Friday evening (October 1), news broke that beleaguered multimedia company Ozy Media was shutting down in the wake of an explosive piece in .
A bad week seems to have gotten worse for multiplatform mediaco Ozy Media.
The Mountain View-based firm, headed by co-founder and CEO Carlos Watson (pictured), is reportedly closing its doors following .
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Top L-R: Matthew Vafiadis, Allison Simmons, Brett Webster. Bottom L-R: Lindsay Rodger, Aaron Lorick, Sasha Fuller
LA-based multimedia and entertainment company OZY Media has hired former executives from BET Networks and Discovery and four new producers for its production arm OZY Studios.
Allison Simmons, who was previously an exec at BET Networks and Releve Entertainment, joins OZY Studios as senior executive of development, while former Discovery and World of Wonder exec Matthew Vafiadis joins as senior executive of current and branded.
The new exec producer for scripted and development is Lindsay Rodger (Netflix’s Between Two Ferns: The Movie, Hulu’s Becoming Bond), while Brett Webster (NBC’s Last Call with Carson Daly, NBC’s New Year’s Eve) and Sasha Fuller (ABC’s Tamron Hall, Sony’s The Dr Oz Show) are joining the team as exec producers on YouTube interview series The Carlos Watson Show. Aaron Lorick takes up the role of associate producer.
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