Industry Moves

Industry Moves: Former Lifetime, iVillage CEO McCormick Appointed New Chairman Of Waterfront Media - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 12 May 2008 09:53 AM PST

Another interesting health content announcement today with Waterfront Media, parent of Everyday Health, appointing cable and online vet Doug McCormick as chairman of the board. He succeeds Bo Peabody, Tripod…

Industry Moves: Pearlstine Leaves Carlyle, Returns To News As Bloomberg’s Chief Content Officer - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 12 May 2008 07:49 AM PST

Norman Pearlstine is joining Bloomberg L.P. in the new position of chief content officer, partnering with Matthew Winkler, founder and editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News. Pearlstine leaves The Carlyle Group, where…

Industry Moves: Thomson Reuters Appoints McDonough New Ad Sales Head - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Mon 12 May 2008 04:00 AM PST

Thomson Reuters (NASDAQ: TRIN) has appointed Riley McDonough SVP, GM and director of advertising sales, Americas, for the company’s consumer publishing business. He will report to Alisa Bowen, who leads…

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Industry Moves: Aegis Media; Facebook; MTV; Tribune - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Sun 11 May 2008 04:54 PM PST

-- Aegis Media: Mainardo de Nardis has stepped down from his role as CEO and will be succeeded by Jerry Buhlmann, who also joins the board June 2. Buhlmann has…

Industry Moves: Channel M; Facebook; NetShelter; Grey Global - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Thu 08 May 2008 10:10 AM PST

-- Channel M: Peter Lee has been appointed CTO and chief strategy officer, focusing on building out the company’s digital distribution network. He joins from the Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS)…

Industry Moves: Tribune Ups Broadcast/Interactive Head Randy Michaels To COO - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 07 May 2008 01:16 PM PST

After a chaotic six months at The Tribune Company’s interactive division, this may be a sign that things are settling down… Randy Michaels, who defected from radio network Clear Channel…

Industry Moves: FT.com ME And Publisher Ien Cheng Quits To Join Google - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 02 May 2008 07:40 AM PST

FT.com managing editor and publisher Ien Cheng, the Financial Times’ most senior digital executive, is quitting the company to take up the post of director of product management for advertising…

Industry Moves: Ziff Davis Media Brings Back Tech Marketing Exec Weedfald As President - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 01 May 2008 07:37 PM PST

Ziff Davis Media, having just wrapped up its Chapter 11 bankruptcy case, can now get back to the business of running a struggling tech publishing company. To help right things,…

Industry Moves: Microsoft Names MSN Branded Entertainment Head Troberman To Digital Marketing Post - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 01 May 2008 03:02 PM PST

Microsoft is moving Gayle Troberman from her post handling MSN’s branded entertainment programming in the online services group to the consumer marketing group, where she will run the digital marketing…

Industry Moves: CNN’s David Payne Leaving To Start Online Ad Firm; Partnering With Jason Krebs - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 30 Apr 2008 07:40 PM PST

Another key personnel loss for Turner in the digital arena: paidContent has learned that David Payne is leaving CNN, where he is SVP and GM, to start a new internet…

Industry Moves: Reunion.com; Nielsen Business Media; ipsh!; Kleiner Perkins - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Wed 30 Apr 2008 03:58 PM PST

-- Reunion.com: Rachel C. Glaser joins the company in a dual role as COO and CFO. Reporting directly to CEO and founder Jeffrey Tinsley, Glaser will oversee all aspects of…

Delayed Reaction: WSJ Special Committee Now Objecting To Way Brauchli’s Departure Was Handled - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 29 Apr 2008 02:25 PM PST

Talk about Slo-Mo ... a week after news broke that Marcus Brauchli was leaving as managing editor of the Wall Street Journal at the suggestion of News Corp-appointed execs, the…

Industry Moves: AOL CMO Burbank Defects To The Nielsen Company - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 25 Apr 2008 08:51 AM PST

paidContent has learned that AOL (NYSE: TWX) Chief Marketing Officer John Burbank is leaving, less than a year after he arrived, to take on the newly-created CMO role at The…

Industry Moves: IDG TechNetwork Taps Digital Publishing Vet Peter Longo As CEO - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 25 Apr 2008 06:29 AM PST

As IDG expands its tech-focused ad network to third-party blogs, the company has made an executive hire to oversee the unit. Publishing industry vet Peter Longo joins as CEO of…

Industry Moves: Lionsgate Appoints CinemaNow CEO as Digital Head - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 24 Apr 2008 11:15 PM PST

Lionsgate Entertainment, without a digital executive for a while now (last was Adrian Sexton, who was VP of digital media and left in May 2006), has finally found it important…

Industry Moves: Google Taps Morgan Stanley Vet For CIO - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 24 Apr 2008 12:15 PM PST

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has quickly found a replacement for Douglas Merrill, the company’s departing CIO, reports News.com. Benjamin Fried, a former managing director of Morgan Stanley’s Application Infrastructure group, will…

Industry Moves: Second Life Parent Appoints Former Organic CEO as Its New CEO - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 22 Apr 2008 06:23 PM PST

Linden Lab, the parent company of Second Life, has appointed a big name CEO: Mark Kingdon, till now the CEO of Omnicom digital agency Organic, is stepping down to come…

Marvel Boosts Its New Media Strategy; Sony Vet Rubenstein Will Lead Global Digital Media Group - 2 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 22 Apr 2008 03:30 PM PST

Last fall, Marvel Entertainment (NYSE: MVL) started to put its deep comics library online. Now it’s making a push to boost its digital media overall, now calling it the Marvel…

Industry Moves: Nielsen Business-Adweek; SpiralFrog; MOG; Mochi; AMC - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Tue 22 Apr 2008 01:26 PM PST

-- Nielsen Business Media: Alison Fahey has been promoted to publisher and editorial director for Adweek, effective immediately. Continuing to report to Sabrina Crow, SVP of the company’s marketing, media…

Industry Moves: Primedia Appoints Former YellowPages.com CEO As Its New CEO; Krantz Upped At YP - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 22 Apr 2008 12:39 PM PST

Primedia (NYSE: PRM), the shell-of-a-company-it-once-was, has appointed a new CEO: the 35-year old Charles Stubbs is the new president and CEO, replacing Robert Metz. Stubbs joins from Yellowpages.com where he…

It’s Official: Brauchli Out At WSJ; Insists ‘Code Of Conduct’ Protecting Paper Has Been Enforced - 1 Comment
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 22 Apr 2008 10:52 AM PST

Marcus Brauchli has resigned as managing editor of the Wall Street Journal, as expected following last night’s reports . The company sent out the announcement following a meeting between members…

Industry Moves: Last.fm Taps Ex-Xbox Brand Manager For First Marketing VP - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 22 Apr 2008 07:43 AM PST

CBS (NYSE: CBS) has named former Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Xbox brand manager Orlena Yeung as Last.fm’s first marketing VP - a post we reported the company would create last week.…

Brauchli Leaving WSJ Managing Editor Post After Four Months With Murdoch: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 21 Apr 2008 07:07 PM PST

Time.com is reporting that Marcus Brauchli, the last Wall Street Journal managing editor appointed under Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) ownership, plans to leave the paper one year after he took…

Industry Moves: Verklin To Step Down As CEO of Aegis Media Americas; May Head Project Canoe : Report - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 21 Apr 2008 01:38 PM PST

After a decade at ad holding company Aegis Media, David Verklin will leave his post as CEO of Aegis Media Americas at the end of the year, AdAge reports. He…

MySpace Ups Berman To President, Sales And Marketing; Begins Testing Community Ad Program For Brands - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 21 Apr 2008 05:17 AM PST

MySpace is promoting Jeff Berman from EVP-marketing and content to the new post of president of sales and marketing. Only the title is a surprise; Berman’s role as the Fox…