Meredith, one of the better performing magazine pubishers over the past year, just lost the vice president/group publisher of Parents and American Baby to American Media.

Diane Newman will be the new executive vice president and publishing director of American Media’s Active Lifestyle Group, which includes Shape, Fit Pregnancy and Natural Health.

Shape lost its publisher, Sabine Feldmann, to Conde Nast, where she is the new associate publisher of Teen Vogue.

Newman resigned mid-morning, shortly before AMI CEO David Pecker was scheduled to announce her arrival there.