Industry Moves

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…

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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…

CBS Interactive Reorganizes Under Pressure To Show Results - 5 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 17 Apr 2008 09:19 AM PST

Under pressure to deliver on all that promise and investment, Quincy Smith is adding layers and shuffling responsibilities in a reorganization of CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS). At the same time…

Industry Moves: Gersh-WMA; National Geographic; InfoSpace; Discovery; NextNew-Cella - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Wed 16 Apr 2008 08:21 PM PST

-- William Morris: Former Disney/ABC SVP of business development Bruce Gersh has joined talent agency William Morris, where he will focus on the development of intellectual property on behalf of…

Industry Moves: Josh Quittner Comes Full Circle, Returns To Time; Will Blog At Time.com - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 16 Apr 2008 03:00 AM PST

Josh Quittner is ending his post-Business 2.0 stint at Fortune but is staying in the Time Inc. family, we’ve confirmed with a source familiar with the situation....Quittner, who has been…

Industry Moves: Former Interpublic Media CEO Joins Spot Runner As President, Media Platforms - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 14 Apr 2008 10:55 PM PST

Spot Runner, the Los Angeles, CA-based firm which uses the web to help marketers buy TV ad spots, has been adding some heavy hitters to its executive roster. It recently…

Industry Moves: Viacom; Oxygen; Ascent Media; IODA - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Mon 14 Apr 2008 05:44 PM PST

-- Viacom: MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA) and BET have promoted Melody Tan to SVP for strategy and business operations in the Content Distribution and Marketing unit. Tan previously served as…

Time Warner Cuts 450 Jobs At New Line Cinema As Studio Merges With Warner Bros. - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 14 Apr 2008 03:09 PM PST

Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) is slashing 450 jobs from New Line Cinema, Reuters reports. The job cuts were expected, as the movie studio is being absorbed by the company’s Warner…

Industry Moves: WPNI CEO Caroline Little Resigns; WaPo Online Editorial Now Reports To Weymouth - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 11 Apr 2008 10:55 AM PST

Caroline Little, who heads up the Washington Post Company’s (NYSE: WPO) online division, has quit, Reuters reports, citing unidentified sources. Little was CEO and publisher of Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, the company’s…

Industry Moves: CBS Hires Bennett For Brand Integration; NBCU Hires Bass For Strategic Initiatives - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 10 Apr 2008 07:49 PM PST

CBS (NYSE: CBS) Television Distribution has brought in branding vet Greg Bennett to create an in-house ad unit to work with advertisers on creating product placement opportunities for TV and…

Industry Moves: KidZui; Meebo; WSJ; PC World/Macworld; Takkle; Vibrant - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Thu 10 Apr 2008 12:14 PM PST

-- KidZui: KidZui, the Internet for Kids launched three weeks ago, has tapped Andy Jedynak as its president and chief marketing officer, reporting to chairman and CEO Cliff Boro. Jedynak…

Ziff Davis Enterprise Restructures, Issues Layoffs - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 10 Apr 2008 11:17 AM PST

Tech publisher Ziff Davis Enterprise is cutting an unspecified number of jobs, according to B2B magazine. The layoffs were handed down by Steve Weitzner, who was named chairman-CEO of ZDE…

Industry Moves: Economist CEO Leaving, Replaced By Ex Online Boss - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 09 Apr 2008 11:37 AM PST

The Economist Group CEO Helen Alexander is leaving the publisher after 23 years to become an adviser to private equity house Bain Capital. Her replacement, from July 15, will be…

Industry Moves: AOL’s Lewis Dvorkin Exiting As Head Of News And Sports Programming - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 09 Apr 2008 11:30 AM PST

PaidContent has learned that Lewis Dvorkin is leaving his post as SVP, *AOL* News and Sports, on May 1, with plans to start his own content company. Dvorkin, a media…

OpenX Picks Ex-Yahoo Cadogan For CEO, Moving To LA - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 09 Apr 2008 01:40 AM PST

Open-source ad server platform OpenX, which rebranded from OpenAds in February, is moving HQ from London to Los Angeles. In the process, it’s hiring Yahoo’s (NSDQ: YHOO) former global ad…

BBC America Assembles Ad Sales Team For First Cross-Platform Deals - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 08 Apr 2008 02:54 PM PST

BBC Worldwide is expanding its North American ad sales operations, allowing for selling ads across BBC.com and its related cable channels for the first time, the commercial arm of UK’s…

Industry Moves: Tribune Taps Clear Channel’s Chase As Interactive President - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 08 Apr 2008 02:01 PM PST

After experiencing an executive shakeup earlier this year, The Tribune Company has hired Marc Chase, Clear Channel’s (NYSE: CCU) former SVP for programming, as president of interactive. Chase replaces Mark…

Industry Moves: Shanda; Be Jane; Telemundo; EA; Morgan Stanley; LANG; Hachette; Thirteen/WNET - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Tue 08 Apr 2008 11:45 AM PST

-- Shanda Interactive (NSDQ: SNDA) Entertainment: Qunzhao Tan, co-founder of Shanda, has been promoted to president and will continue in his role as CTO. Most recently, he was EVP and…

Industry Moves: Neil Budde Joins Personalized News Startup DailyMe As President - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 03 Apr 2008 09:19 PM PST

Neil Budde, the former president of Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) News and information group and the founding editor and publisher of WSJ.com, has joined DailyMe, a personalized news startup, as president…

FIM Reorganizes: Barrett Out; Bain President Of New FIM Audience Network - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 03 Apr 2008 08:26 PM PST

Major changes at Fox Interactive Media (NYSE: NWS), all centered on money ... Michael Barrett is leaving rather than change roles after his job of chief revenue officer was eliminated…

Industry Moves: Gannett Promotes Information Center’s Carroll To New Digital Role - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 03 Apr 2008 06:52 PM PST

Gannett (NYSE: GCI) is promoting Jennifer Carroll from VP, New Media Content to VP, Digital Content at Gannett Digital. Carroll helped build the company’s “Information Center” newsroom strategy for the…

Industry Moves: IDG-Bob Carrigan; Atari CEO; Bravo Promotes; Univision Online & DivX Exits - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Wed 02 Apr 2008 06:34 PM PST

-- IDG: IDG has promoted U.S. CEO Bob Carrigan to CEO of IDG Communications Worldwide, a newly-created position...he will now oversee IDG’s media operations in the U.S. and 84 additional…