Turner Sports has upped Janet Abbazia to vice president of event marketing. Abbazia, who had been director of event marketing, will continue to have oversight of all event marketing and hospitality efforts for the organization.

Discovery Communications has appointed Joe LaSala senior executive vice president, general counsel and secretary. In this new role, he will oversee the legal affairs of the company and serve as the principal legal advisor to the management team and board of directors. He was previously SVP and general counsel for Novell.

Games network GSN has hired John Zaccario as senior vice president of advertising sales. In his new role, the former vice president of marketing for ESPN will now be in charge of connecting commercial brands across all platforms as well as supervising the ad sales strategies for the upfront season in 2009.

Teen content provider Channel One has named Angela Hunter senior vice president and executive producer of Channel One News. Hunter was previously an independent producer on projects for networks including TLC, the Travel Channel, and Court TV.

Online girls’ entertainment site has named Shant Tutunjian integrated marketing manager, to develop integrated partnerships to drive revenue and support Stardoll's growth. He was previously a marketing and sponsorship administrator at GSN.

Golf Digest has promoted Karen Elyse to executive director of events and sports marketing, up from director. Elyse will now be responsible for the development and execution of market programs and oversee annual events.

Golf Digest has also promoted Matt Ginella to senior editor of travel and Christian Iooss to director of photography to succeed Ginella. Iooss was previously deputy picture editor.

Fortune has hired Roddy Boyd as a writer, working with breaking news and financial enterprise reporting. Boyd joins from the New York Post's business desk, where he covered Wall Street.

Condé Nast has selected three new senior vice presidents: Thomas A. Florio, currently vice president and publishing director of Vogue, is now senior vice president and publishing director, overseeing Teen Vogue publishing as well; William Wackermann will add Condé Nast Bridal Media Group to his current responsibilities as vice president and publisher of Glamour; and Louis Cona has been upped from vice president and publisher of The New Yorker to senior vice president of the Condé Nast Media Group.

The about-to-relaunch Success magazine has appointed Deborah Heisz editor in chief. Heisz joined VideoPlus, the company that now owns Success, in 2004.

Univision Communications has named Peter J. Lazarus executive vice president of network sales, where he will oversee all advertising sales operations for Univision, TeleFutura and Galavision. Lazarus was previously SVP of sales and business development at IMG Sports and Entertainment.

David Letterman has lost the beard he grew during his long hiatus forced by the writers' strike, getting it shaved while on the air on last night’s "Late Show" on CBS. Guest Tom Hanks brought the comedian an appropriate gift, a first aid kit for a cut incurred while shaving the beard. Letterman had kept the beard for a few days on-air as a symbol of support for the writers.

Out of home advertising company Titan Worldwide has upped David Etherington to senior vice president and worldwide marketing director. He has been with Titan since May 2007 and will now oversee the company's marketing and advertising efforts worldwide.

Global digital marketing agency Digitas has hired Heath Rudduck as executive creative director for its Boston headquarters. Rudduck will now oversee creative development and execution for all Boston office clients, which include GM and The Home Depot.

Shopper insight research provider Saatchi & Saatchi X has made a number of promotions. Charlie Anderson has been promoted to chief executive of North American operations, up from president of client services; Marielle Tammer is now regional chief executive for the EMEA branch, encompassing Europe, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Africa; Simon Hathaway is chief executive in the UK; March Rivoira has been upped to managing director for Greater China; Sarah Todd is now regional account director for EMEA; and Brittney Duke has risen to vice president of global operations. Saatchi has also hired Adrian Farina as regional CEO for Latin America.