Dana Rosen, CLO of Time Inc. Courtesy photo.

Time has tapped a new chief legal officer.

The New York-based media company announced Thursday that Dana Rosen, a longtime media industry in-house counsel, will start as Time's top lawyer July 29. Rosen will oversee “all legal matters across the company as well as [Time's] relationships with outside counsel around the world,” said editor-in-chief and chief executive officer Edward Felsenthal in a note to staff.

“As someone who has spent over half her career as the General Counsel of a media company, this was a very exciting opportunity that I couldn't pass up,” Rosen said in an email. “Time is an iconic media property, with an incredibly rich history of great journalism.”

As CLO, she's hoping to lead both the legal team and help “people in all parts of the business achieve their editorial and business objectives.” It's a “particularly exciting time” for the company, she said, following its acquisition by Lynne and Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce. Rosen will report to Felsenthal.

She joins Time from ALM Media, Corporate Counsel's parent company, where she spent nearly five years as general counsel. She has spent more than a decade in-house at media companies.

“I've always had broad responsibilities at my in-house positions, including overseeing litigation, contracts, First Amendment work, M&A, privacy and corporate matters. I'll bring all of that to Time,” she said.

Before ALM Media, Rosen spent more than eight years at Wenner Media, a publishing company. There, she was “responsible for all legal matters for Us Weekly, Rolling Stone and Men's Journal magazines and all corporate legal matters for Wenner Media and its affiliates,” according to her LinkedIn profile.

She began her in-house career as an associate general counsel at Penguin Group USA after seven years as an associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. Rosen received her juris doctor from New York University Law School.

“Dana's experience speaks for itself,” Felsenthal said. Time was seeking a chief legal officer who is a “lawyer and leader, with the mission of preserving that trust and holding all of us to the highest standards in our business, in our journalism and in our culture.”

Outside of her in-house roles, Rosen has been an advocate for the advancement of women in law as a co-leader for the Women's General Counsel Network.

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