Michelle Preli Named Editor in Chief, Brides.com

NEW YORK, March 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Michelle Preli has been named Editor in
Chief of Brides.com, it was announced today by Brides.com's Vice President
Susan Rerat. Her appointment is effective immediately.
Before joining Conde Nast, Ms. Preli had been the Vice President of
Editorial Programming at NBC's iVillage.com. Prior to that, she was General
Manager of Newsweek's BudgetTravel.com.
Before that, Ms. Preli spent 10 years at MSNBC.com, where she was part of
the team that launched the news site. There, she became Executive Producer of
TV News Co-productions, overseeing the Web sites for the Today show, Nightly
News with Brian Williams, Dateline NBC, and Meet the Press.
Ms. Preli holds four Clarion Awards in online journalism from The
Association for Women in Communications.
Brides.com is a premiere bridal destination site, with over 1.2 million
unique users every month and 60% year over year growth in traffic.
Brides.com's dedicated editorial team creates original content, develops
interactive tools, cultivates an engaged community and provides an array of
beautiful imagery and videos to empower the bride throughout her wedding
planning process. Brides.com commands a superior market position by
aggregating content from the three national magazines-Brides, Modern Bride,
Elegant Bride-and 16 local bridal magazines.
Conde Nast Publications, a unit of Advance Publications, includes twenty-
six consumer magazines and their websites, eight uniquely branded websites,
the Fairchild Fashion Group, Parade, the Conde Nast Media Group, and the
Shared Services Centers.
SOURCE Brides

Andrea Kaplan, +1-212-630-4865, andrea_kaplan@condenast.com, for Brides