Karp is an industry veteran with a track record
of collaboration, creativity and delivering strong results.
He will report to ViacomCBS President and CEO
Bob Bakish.
ViacomCBS Inc. (NASDAQ: VIACA, VIAC) (“ViacomCBS”) today
announced that Jonathan Karp has been promoted to President and CEO
of Simon & Schuster, Inc., effective immediately. Karp will
oversee all of Simon & Schuster’s domestic and international
publishing operations. He succeeds Carolyn Reidy, former President
and CEO of Simon & Schuster, who passed away earlier this
month.
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ViacomCBS has appointed Jonathan Karp to
President and CEO of Simon & Schuster, Inc., effective
immediately. Credit: Simon & Schuster
Karp most recently served as President and Publisher of Simon
& Schuster Adult Publishing, which includes Atria Books, Avid
Reader Press, Gallery Books, Scribner, Simon & Schuster and
their associated sub-imprints and lines.
“Jon embodies the values that Carolyn instilled at Simon &
Schuster, and he is well suited to guide the continued growth and
evolution of this incredible global brand,” said ViacomCBS
President and CEO Bob Bakish. “Jon was a key member of the
leadership team that consistently delivered strong results for
Simon & Schuster, while expanding its readership across genres
and formats. He is a highly skilled executive who is deeply
committed to the collaborative process of publishing, and will no
doubt build upon a storied legacy of success.”
“For 96 years, Simon & Schuster has been the gold standard
for publishing books that satisfy and illuminate readers, and I am
grateful for the opportunity to inherit this great legacy,” said
Karp. “We will continue to build on the strong foundation that
Carolyn Reidy and the leadership team have in place to publish
books we believe in and love.”
Karp joined Simon & Schuster in June 2010. During his
tenure, he oversaw the publication of bestselling and acclaimed
works including Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, What Happened by
Hillary Clinton, Fear by Bob Woodward, Frederick Douglass by David
Blight (winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in History), Born to Run
by Bruce Springsteen, In One Person by John Irving, The Library
Book by Susan Orlean, and the launch of Mobituaries by Mo Rocca, an
acclaimed book and podcast co-produced with CBS Sunday Morning.
Karp was named President of Adult Publishing in 2018: under his
management the imprints within the group have introduced many new
authors to bestsellerdom including Jack Carr, Mary Beth Keane,
Megan Miranda, Mike Rowe and Rebecca Serle.
Prior to joining Simon & Schuster, Karp was Publisher and
Editor in Chief of Twelve, an imprint of the Hachette Book Group,
which he founded in 2005. At Twelve, Karp published numerous
highly-acclaimed bestselling works, including True Compass by
Edward M. Kennedy, God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens, and
War by Sebastian Junger. At Random House, where he began his career
and rose to Editor-in-Chief, he acquired and edited Seabiscuit by
Laura Hillenbrand, Franklin and Winston by Jon Meacham, Thank You
For Smoking by Christopher Buckley, and Faith of My Fathers by John
McCain and Mark Salter, the first of seven books they published
together.
Karp earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Brown University
and his Master of Arts degree from New York University.
About Jonathan Karp
Jonathan Karp was named Publisher of Simon & Schuster’s
flagship imprint in June 2010. During his tenure, he has overseen
the publication of bestselling authors such as Hillary Rodham
Clinton, Doris Kearns Goodwin, John Irving, Walter Isaacson, David
McCullough, Susan Orlean, and Bob Woodward, while launching
acclaimed books by Jonah Berger, Bill Browder, Rinker Buck, Lisa
Halliday, Chip and Dan Heath, Adam Higginbotham, Siri Hustvedt,
Saeed Jones, Naomi Klein, Jessica Knoll, Samin Nosrat, Vaddey
Ratner, Matthew Thomas and Rebecca Traister. Other notable authors
and cultural figures brought to the imprint’s list during Mr.
Karp’s tenure include Tom Brady, Stephen Colbert, Ray Dalio, Clive
Davis, Nelson DeMille, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Brian Grazer, Sam
Lipsyte, Gucci Mane, Chris Matthews, John McCain, Martha Nussbaum,
Jerry Seinfeld, Bruce Springsteen, Howard Stern, Andrew Sullivan,
and Herman Wouk.
Among the highlights of Mr. Karp’s ten years as publisher were
the publication of Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, What Happened by
Hillary Clinton, Fear by Bob Woodward, Frederick Douglass by David
Blight (winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in History), Born to Run
by Bruce Springsteen, In One Person by John Irving, The Library
Book by Susan Orlean, and the launch of Mobituaries by Mo Rocca, an
acclaimed book and podcast co-produced with CBS Sunday Morning.
In 2018, Mr. Karp was named President and Publisher of Simon
& Schuster Adult Publishing, encompassing the company’s New
York–based adult trade publishing: Atria Books, Gallery Books,
Scribner, Simon & Schuster and their associated sub-imprints
and lines. During his tenure, the adult group launched a successful
new imprint, Avid Reader Press, and established the Simon &
Schuster Speakers Bureau.
Prior to joining Simon & Schuster, Mr. Karp was Publisher
and Editor in Chief of Twelve, an imprint of the Hachette Book
Group, which he founded in 2005. At Twelve, Mr. Karp published
numerous highly-acclaimed bestselling works, including True Compass
by the late Edward M. Kennedy, God Is Not Great by Christopher
Hitchens, Losing Mum and Pup by Christopher Buckley, Columbine by
Dave Cullen, Nurtureshock by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman, and
War by Sebastian Junger.
Prior to founding Twelve, Mr. Karp was Editor in Chief of Random
House, where he began his publishing career in 1989 as an editorial
assistant and worked for sixteen years. At Random House, Mr. Karp
acquired and edited an eclectic and diverse list of bestselling
fiction and nonfiction titles including Seabiscuit by Laura
Hillenbrand, Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson, What Should I Do With
My Life? by Po Bronson, Thank You For Smoking by Christopher
Buckley, Faith of My Fathers by John McCain and Mark Salter,
Franklin and Winston by Jon Meacham, The Orchid Thief by Susan
Orlean, The Last Don by Mario Puzo and The Dante Club by Matthew
Pearl.
He has also edited fiction by Steven Bochco, Elizabeth Frank,
Eric Garcia, Neil Gordon, Rupert Holmes, C.J. Hribal, David
Ignatius, David Liss, and Mark Winegardner; and works of nonfiction
by Alan Alda, Henry Alford, Marcia Angell, Sally Bedell Smith, Buzz
Bissinger, Alex Berenson, Joel Glenn Brenner, Vicki Constantine
Croke, Gregg Easterbrook, David Frum, Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose,
John Harris, Gary Hart, Miles Harvey, Constance Hays, Donald Katz,
David Kushner, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Eric Liu, Jeffrey Rosen,
David Plotz, Kenneth Pollack, Gary Rivlin, Jim Rogers, Ron
Rosenbaum, Jonathan Schwartz, Billy Shore, Carol Spinney, Mike
Stanton, Donna Summer, Kara Swisher, John Taylor, Andrew Tobias,
Donald Trump, Paul Wellstone, Juan Williams, Michael J. Wolf, and
Mitchell Zuckoff.
Mr. Karp earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Brown
University and his Master of Arts degree from New York University.
He has written for The New York Times Magazine, The American
Scholar, and The Washington Post and contributed a chapter to What
Editors Do: The Art Craft & Business of Book Editing (The
University of Chicago Press). He also wrote the book and lyrics to
a musical, How to Save the World and Find True Love in 90 Minutes,
which premiered at the New York International Fringe Festival and
had a brief Off-Broadway run.
About ViacomCBS
ViacomCBS (NASDAQ: VIAC; VIACA) is a leading global media and
entertainment company that creates premium content and experiences
for audiences worldwide. Driven by iconic consumer brands, its
portfolio includes CBS, Showtime Networks, Paramount Pictures,
Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central, BET, CBS All Access, Pluto TV and
Simon & Schuster, among others. The company delivers the
largest share of the U.S. television audience and boasts one of the
industry’s most important and extensive libraries of TV and film
titles. In addition to offering innovative streaming services and
digital video products, ViacomCBS provides powerful capabilities in
production, distribution and advertising solutions for partners on
five continents.
For more information about ViacomCBS, please visit
www.viacbs.com and follow @ViacomCBS on social platforms.
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Simon & Schuster (212) 698-1132
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