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With an eye for what’s next, the newsroom sets the tone feet first.</p> <div class="dept-title"><strong>EDITORIAL</strong></div> <h2 class="post-title">Michael Atmore</h2> <div class="excerpt"> <p><img class="alignright wp-image-2602 size-medium" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20161025165014im_/https://pmcfootwearnews.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/michael01.jpg?w=200&h=300" alt="Michael Atmore" width="200" height="300" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20161025165014im_/http://pmcfootwearnews.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/michael01.jpg?w=200&h=300 200w, https://web.archive.org/web/20161025165014im_/http://pmcfootwearnews.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/michael01.jpg?w=400&h=600 400w, https://web.archive.org/web/20161025165014im_/http://pmcfootwearnews.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/michael01.jpg?w=100&h=150 100w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px"/></p> <p>Michael Atmore is Editorial Director of <em>Footwear News (FN)</em> and Director of Brand Development for Fairchild Fashion Media (FFM). He oversees both <em>FN</em> and Footwearnews.com, which offer extensive coverage of footwear-industry trends, fashion designers, business executives and retailers, as well as reports and reviews of the major runway shows.</p> <p>As Director of Brand Development, Mr. Atmore focuses on the extension of FFM brands, with particular attention to television, trade shows and the development of new products and initiatives.</p> <p>Additionally, under his direction, FFM hosts two industry events: the annual FN Achievement Awards, and the FN CEO Summit, a biennial executive conference that draws a diverse cross-section of top-level executives and industry professionals. In 2008, Mr. Atmore created the FN “Shoe Star” webisode series, a reality shoe-design competition for Fashion Institute of Technology students created to identify the next great footwear designer.</p> <p>Prior to joining Fairchild and Condé Nast in 1997, Mr. Atmore was founding Editorial Director and Publisher of <em>Footwear Plus.</em> He has an extensive background in retail, having served as Editorial Director for a group of retail-based publications at International Thomson. He has also held top editorial positions at U.S. Business Press and Harcourt Brace.</p> </div> <h2 class="post-title">Neil Weilheimer</h2> <div class="excerpt"> <p><img class=" wp-image-2367 size-thumbnail alignright" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20161025165014im_/https://pmcfootwearnews.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/neilsq.jpg?w=150&h=150" alt="Neil Weilheimer" width="150" height="150" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20161025165014im_/http://pmcfootwearnews.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/neilsq.jpg?w=150&h=150 150w, https://web.archive.org/web/20161025165014im_/http://pmcfootwearnews.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/neilsq.jpg?w=300&h=300 300w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px"/>Executive editor Neil Weilheimer is a media pro with 20 years of writing, reporting, Web and management experience. He loves using all kinds of content to tell disruptive stories that engage and inform.</p> <p>Weilheimer serves as top editor for FN’s most-read, most-debated list of the 100 most powerful people in footwear. Additionally, he reports enterprising stories for FN, from following one entrepreneur into the tent cities of post-earthquake Haiti to an exclusive profile of Cameron Diaz’s new shoe line.</p> <p>Before joining the team in 2004, Weilheimer reported on real estate tycoons, green hotels and blind triathletes.</p> </div> <h2 class="post-title">Barbara Schneider-Levy</h2> <div class="excerpt"> <p><img class=" wp-image-2389 size-thumbnail alignright" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20161025165014im_/https://pmcfootwearnews.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/barbsq.jpg?w=150&h=150" alt="Barbara Schneider-Levy" width="150" height="150" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20161025165014im_/http://pmcfootwearnews.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/barbsq.jpg?w=150&h=150 150w, https://web.archive.org/web/20161025165014im_/http://pmcfootwearnews.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/barbsq.jpg?w=300&h=300 300w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px"/>Tapping into 30 years of experience at Footwear News, Barbara Schneider-Levy’s role as senior editor allows her to report on a diverse range of markets. Her coverage spans the men’s, comfort, work boot, Western boot, rain boot, slipper and materials and components categories.</p> <p>Having launched her career in the early 1980s when a domestic shoe industry still thrived, Barbara had the opportunity to visit many footwear factories to learn firsthand how a shoe made its journey from a designer’s sketch pad to a store’s shelf.</p> <p>Although manufacturing has mostly moved offshore, the industry continues to introduce new footwear talent to an increasingly savvy fashion consumer. The industry’s recently welcomed an impressive list of celebrity designers to the footwear community that include Sarah Jessica Parker, Cameron Diaz and Ivanka Trump.</p> </div> <h2 class="post-title">Katie Abel</h2> <div class="excerpt"> <p><img class=" wp-image-2412 size-thumbnail alignright" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20161025165014im_/https://pmcfootwearnews.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/katiesq.jpg?w=150&h=150" alt="Katie Abel" width="150" height="150" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20161025165014im_/http://pmcfootwearnews.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/katiesq.jpg?w=150&h=150 150w, https://web.archive.org/web/20161025165014im_/http://pmcfootwearnews.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/katiesq.jpg?w=300&h=300 300w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px"/>Global News Director Katie Abel oversees cover stories, news content and special sections for the magazine and website. In addition, she regularly writes major stories on top executives, designers and celebrities, including Sarah Jessica Parker, Manolo Blahnik, Christian Louboutin, Nicholas Kirkwood, Giuseppe Zanotti, Bergdorf Goodman President Josh Schulman and many others.</p> <p>She also has been the lead editor on special standalone publications created by FN, including the Saks Fifth Avenue “Sexy Shoes” project and “Footloose,” a magazine produced in partnership with HSN.</p> <p>Prior to joining FN, Abel worked at The Charlotte Observer, a leading daily newspaper in North Carolina’s largest city.</p> </div> <h2 class="post-title">Jennie Bell</h2> <div class="excerpt"> <p><img class=" wp-image-2366 size-thumbnail alignright" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20161025165014im_/https://pmcfootwearnews.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/jenniesq.jpg?w=150&h=150" alt="Jennie Bell" width="150" height="150" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20161025165014im_/http://pmcfootwearnews.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/jenniesq.jpg?w=150&h=150 150w, https://web.archive.org/web/20161025165014im_/http://pmcfootwearnews.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/jenniesq.jpg?w=300&h=300 300w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px"/>Jennie Bell serves as the features editor for Footwear News, working with the magazine’s top writers and editors to develop new and insightful ways to tell the shoe industry’s most compelling stories.</p> <p>She’s been in the publishing business for more than a decade, and in her time at FN has overseen projects big and small, from the weekly Top 10 Lists and annual Year in Review sections, to the special FN Achievement Awards issue.</p> <p>Prior to joining FN, Bell served in editorial positions for a range of New York media companies, including Louise Blouin Media, VNU and AOL. She is a proud graduate of Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Ga., and remains a Southerner in her heart of hearts.</p> </div> <h2 class="post-title">Mosha Lundström Halbert</h2> <div class="excerpt"> <p><img class=" wp-image-2909 size-thumbnail alignright" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20161025165014im_/https://pmcfootwearnews.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/moshasq.jpg?w=150&h=150" alt="Mosha Lundstrom Halbert" width="150" height="150" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20161025165014im_/http://pmcfootwearnews.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/moshasq.jpg?w=150&h=150 150w, https://web.archive.org/web/20161025165014im_/http://pmcfootwearnews.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/moshasq.jpg?w=300&h=300 300w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px"/>Mosha Lundström Halbert oversees fashion imagery and editorial content for FN. In addition to writing features and handling extensive designer interviews, she also styles all editorials.</p> <p>Prior to joining FN, Lundström Halbert was the Associate Fashion Director for Hudson’s Bay Company/Lord & Taylor in New York and Fashion News Editor of FLARE in her native Canada. She attends and covers fashion weeks in New York, London, Milan and Paris.</p> <p>Lundström Halbert has been called upon and quoted as a source in the New York Times, Globe and Mail, Boston Globe, BBC, CBC, Daily Mail, The Telegraph, and National Post. She is an alum of The University of Toronto (where she was the fashion editor at The Varsity), the Instuit de Touraine in France and The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City.</p> </div> <h2 class="post-title">Christian Allaire</h2> <div class="excerpt"> <p><img class=" wp-image-2844 size-thumbnail alignright" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20161025165014im_/https://pmcfootwearnews.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/christiansq.jpg?w=150&h=150" alt="Christian Allaire" width="150" height="150" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20161025165014im_/http://pmcfootwearnews.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/christiansq.jpg?w=150&h=150 150w, https://web.archive.org/web/20161025165014im_/http://pmcfootwearnews.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/christiansq.jpg?w=300&h=300 300w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px"/>Christian Allaire wears two hats at Footwear News. He currently acts as the assistant fashion editor, where he conceptualizes, styles and requests samples for fashion shoots. He also serves as the high-end men’s editor, where he explores the men’s market for the latest brands, trends and styles.</p> <p>Prior to joining the team, Allaire worked as a freelance fashion journalist based in Toronto. He wrote for publications like The National Post, CBC and Flare Magazine, as well as assisted on shoots for Interview Magazine. He currently uses his stove for shoe storage.</p> </div> <h2 class="post-title"></h2> <h2 class="post-title">Nikara Johns</h2> <div class="excerpt"> <p>Nikara Johns is the editorial assistant for FN. She assists Editorial Director Michael Atmore on a daily basis. In addition to assisting Atmore, she contributes to footwearnews.com covering trending topics, entertainment, celebrities and more. Before joining FN, Johns interned at Variety in Los Angeles for six months, writing over 200 articles for Variety.com. 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