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Former magazine association CEO dies

Donald Kummerfeld, who was CEO of Magazine Publishers of America for 12 years, died July 4. He was 78. Kummerfeld was working in his garden in Jersey City, N.J., when he became ill in the intense heat, The New York Times reported. He was taken to the hospital, where he died. Cause of death was not released. Kummerfeld was one of the longest-tenured CEOs of the Magazine Publishers of America, later renamed MPA-The Association of Magazine Media. He left the group in 1999 and, two years later, became CEO of FIPP, an international magazine association headquartered in London. He retired from FIPP in 2009, and most recently was a staff research consultant for the Task … Read More