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.
We and others have been speculating for weeks that Peter Levinsohn would soon be replaced (particularly since his champion, Peter Chernin, recently announced his own departure) along with a possible reorganization of FIM. Levinsohn is definitely out. What isn’t clear is how the division is being reorganized, but the job will almost certainly be bigger than running the existing FIM assets. Stay tuned.
Best of luck to him, lets hope he does a better job there eh?
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“Jonathn” in the title Mike.
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There is no one more forward thinking than Miller. Time Warner/AOL put them selves back into the stone age having him depart.
Good luck.
Jon will be a great addition to the News Corp. team – Congrats
why would you want the former head of a failed media company to head a failing one? Time to short.
Musical chairs. When the music stops, the last one standing is out the door.
musical chairs…without myspace fim has no assets really
and myspace needs some work
say goodbye Chris Dewolfe…..
MySpace is going to need something more than a guy from a company that is more than a decade behind the times.
A great hire, and nice to see Jon running a big platform again.
CEO at FIM….Chairman of OpenX….care to speculate?
- Jaafer
Congrats to Jonathan!
just pave the way so that myspace be sold or become a “joint venture” eventually
The first thing Jonathan Miller should do is arrange an urgent meeting with Rupert Murdoch and beg him to buy Twitter.
If they both move now, they should be able to purchase Twitter at either less than twice the price, or at least two thirds of the price that they orginally paid for MySpace.
The content and value of Twitter in the long term will not only be a greater assest than MySpace for News Corp’s Digital Media, but it would become a ‘killer app’ across all of News Corp’s Divisions, especially its TV Networks.
Twitter can become the Western Union for all Breaking News.
Especially World News, Sports News, Showbiz News and Financial News.
If major events and views from key players across all of those sectors are being revealed exclusively on Twitter, then surely Twitter is a much have ‘killer app’ for Breaking News.
Over to you Rupert.
Are you having a twitter orgasm?
What does this mean about the future of Velocity?
Some serious shuffling going on there in the boardroom of news corp!
Does it occur to anyone here that this is yet another tragicomic swapping of an exec from one internet cesspool to another?
Nice going. Congrats, Jon.