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Creator Cat Goetze becomes the first outside shareholder in Smooth Media, a five-year-old talent management firm, joining as strategic adviser while keeping her existing revenue-share deal with the bootstrapped company unchanged.
Veteran media exec Geneva S. Thomas, formerly of People, Essence and Condé Nast, is launching The Knowing, aiming to blend legacy-magazine authority with the direct audience relationships that power creator media.