Hefner is among five other media executives of her caliber who have been recognized as industry “influencers,” and for their enduring support of digital media and their success in developing magazine brands online.
Hefner, chairman and chief executive of Playboy, joined her father’s company in 1975 and has been credited with moving the publishing empire her father founded into the digital age.
The inductees will be honored on March 15 at the min day Summit in New York City where media executives will gather for a full day to discuss magazines in the digital age.
This is min’s first-ever hall of fame ceremony and it will take place during the Best of the Web awards luncheon at the Grand Hyatt in New York.
Other inductees include: Sarah Chubb, president of CondeNet; Wenda Harris Millard, chief sales officer of Yahoo; Steve Lacy, president and CEO of Meredith; Tad Smith, CEO of Reed Business Information; and Jim Spanfeller, president/CEO of Forbes.com.
"Our first-ever inductees are among the media executives on the magazine side of the business who invested an unparalleled amount of passion and resources into the Internet and other emerging technologies," Diane Schwartz, vice president and group publisher of min, said. "These hall of famers over the past decade or so took a more platform-agnostic approach to their brands and are now reaping the benefits of that foresight."
New York-based min is a business-to-business publishing organization that tracks key industry players and reports the inside story on recent mergers, acquisitions and deals, IPOs, brand extension strategies and online publishing.