Fashion editor, graphic designer join RT

NEW YORK Retailing Today group has hired two new editorial associates. —Building on two editorial traditions—insightful reporting and writing, and impactful design and layout—the

Yelena Moroz will spearhead the group’s fashion reporting, including her coverage in this issue of Fashion Week, and will also share coverage of the beauty, juvenilie and sporting goods beats. Moroz has written for BeautyNews NYC.com , Women’s Health and Boating Life, and recently received her graduate degree in journalism from the University of Florida.

Zankhana Kathrani will carry the torch of the group’s award-winning graphic design department. In the newly created position of Design Associate/Production Editor, Kathrani will help guide the aesthetic vision for the group’s main properties, including Retailing Today, Connecting Northwest Arkansas and RetailingToday.com .

“Yelena and Zankhana represent a new generation of editors whose training and experience fit seamlessly with the group’s ongoing embrace of digital media,” said Editor Tim Craig. “Already they have made meaningful contributions to the group, and undoubtedly will continue to do so throughout their tenure with Retailing Today.”