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March 27, 2009

Jonathan Miller, Former AOL CEO, joins News Corp.

Filed under: Media — Tags: , , — Raja @ 11:57 pm

Jonathan Miller, former CEO at AOL, joins News Corp. as its chief digital officer.

Jonathan Miller, the former CEO of AOL, is taking over the digital assets of News Corp., we’ve confirmed independently - his new title will be CEO of Digital Media. This will include Fox Interactive Media and other duties. Peter Levinsohn, the current president of Fox Interactive, will be leaving his current position but will remain at News Corp.

This is more than a little ironic. Miller currently works with Ross Levinsohn at Velocity Interactive Group - and Ross Levinsohn was the head of Fox Interactive before Peter Levinsohn took the position in late 2006.

This means Miller is now running MySpace and other News Corp. digital assets, making him MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe’s fifth boss in the last few years.

Miller was under contractual obligations with AOL not to work with AOL competitors until this month. Time Warner vetoed his appointment to the Yahoo board of directors last year under the agreement.

February 23, 2009

Peter Chernin, COO of News Corp, to step down

Filed under: Entertainment, Media — Tags: , — Raja @ 4:19 pm

Paidcontent reports that Chernin, New Corp COO, will be leaving the company where he worked for the last 20 years when his current contract expires on June 30.

He is widely expected to pursue a TV and movie production deal with Fox which came as part of his contract. He is well respected both in Hollywood and Wallstreet circles. His departure is seen to have come at a particularly trecherous time for News corp when its stock saw a 70% drop from its 52 week high, bigger drop off than time warner or disney.

Most expected him to staty with News corp with a renewed contract which never materialized. No successor was named.

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