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About Clint Engel, Executive Editor, Home News Now
Engel has covered furniture retail news — with an emphasis on Top 100 companies — for more than 28 years. He spent nearly all of that time as retail editor and then senior retail editor at Furniture Today before founding Home News Now with Publisher Rick Harrison and has become a go-to resource for information and insight on the retail trends and events that shape this business.
About Tom Russell, Editor-In-Chief, Home News Now
Russell comes to HNN from Furniture Today, where he worked since August 2003. He began his career there as associate editor, covering metal beds, occasional furniture and later the home office and home entertainment categories before being assigned to cover case goods in 2008. He has done this job full time since then, covering both imports and the domestic side of the case goods industry. Since he first joined the paper, he also has traveled extensively around the world to trade shows in Asia, Europe and the Middle East. He also has traveled to China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam and to Poland, Mexico, Canada and Brazil, covering manufacturers of case goods upholstery and bedding in those and other parts of the globe, including the Philippines.
About Alex Milstein, Executive Editor, Casual News Now
Milstein brings a strong understanding of not only the outdoor industry, but also the technology sector. For the past eight months, he has served as product editor for both Casual News Now and sister site Home News Now. Prior to that, he covered the casual industry as well as the interior design community as senior editor of Casual Living, Casual Living Today and Designers Today. Milstein also served as a content editor for Progressive Business Media and frequently contributed to Furniture Today. Milstein also is a contributor to The FAM-For All Things Mattress.
About Julie A. Palm, Editor-In-Chief, Decor News Now
Julie A. Palm began her career as a reporter and editor for daily newspapers in Texas. She started covering home furnishings as an editor for Home Accents Today and for more than a decade was editor-in-chief of BedTimes and also its sister publication, Sleep Savvy, covering the sleep products industry for manufacturers, retailers and suppliers. In 2013, she launched Palm Ink, working with a variety of clients both inside and outside the home furnishings industry. Over the course of her career, Palm has earned a reputation as skilled editor, engaging writer and adept publications manager. Returning to the fashion and trend-driven side of the furniture business as editor-in-chief of Decor News Now is a dream job.
Palm has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Texas Christian University and a master’s in liberal art studies from Wake Forest University. She works mainly to support the lavish lifestyles of her pets and gets some of her best writing done while walking the dog.
About Rick Harrison, Founding Publisher, Home News Now, Casual News Now, Decor News Now
With nearly 25 years of experience in media, much of which has focused on the home category, Harrison brings a unique skill set and range of capabilities to any product. With stints as publisher and in sales and product management at Furniture Today, Interiors Magazine, Kids Today and Casual Living, as well as founding publisher of InFurniture for Conde Nast, Harrison has a history of successfully developing products that are embraced by the home furnishings industry. Harrison is owner of HCG Media, a full service provider of rich media ad technology, media buying, in-store digital display, brand management and premium content.
Harrison holds a BA from the University of North Carolina, as well as an MBA from the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School. He lives next to a trout stream with his wife and four children and is a very average Little League baseball and Pop Warner football coach.
Clint Engel, Executive Editor, Home News Now
Tom Russell, Editor-In-Chief, Home News Now
Alex Milstein, Editor-In-Chief, Casual News Now
Julie A. Palm, Editor-In-Chief, Decor News Now
Rick Harrison, Founding Publisher
