Reposted from Kara Swisher’s post at All Things D:

BoomTown has confirmed a report by Nikki Finke of Deadline Hollywood Daily that former AOL head Jon Miller is set to take over as digital head at News Corp., replacing Peter Levinsohn. (more…)

Reposted from Paid Content’s Staci D. Kramer:

Peter Chernin’s decision to leave News Corp after 12-plus years as COO set off a series of dominoes that will be rippling for months to come. As part of the response, Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch combined all LA-based creative content—movies and TV—under Jim Gianopulos and Tom Rothman, co-chairmen and CEOs of Fox Filmed Entertainment. Now Gianopulos and Rothman are getting their own digital content head as Peter Levinsohn moves from president of Fox Interactive Media to president of new media and digital distribution for Fox Filmed Entertainment. Some details of Levinsohn’s new job, which won’t be announced until Monday, emerged with the news that Jon Miller plans to join News Corp. as chief digital officer, with operating responsibility that includes MySpace and the other units of FIM, as well as Jamba.

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Just for fun.

This is new.

I was surprised to see this ad, a display unit for YouTube HD running in my Google RSS Reader on a feed from Silicon Alley Insider. Google serving house ads for its own video service, YouTube?

The ad is running in the Google Ad Sense network, the search giant’s broad, yet targeted hyper-advertising distribution network. It’s what amounts to a house ad, meaning either YouTube is spending to advertise its service, which I doubt, or Google is undersold on their inventory and they’re running free ads for their video service. (more…)

Who isn’t fascinated with the deconstruction of the media business as reported by, wait for it… the media?

Implosion Reporting has developed into its own cottage industry, not quite as tabloid as Octomom headlines, but just about as ubiquitous. Is there any less irony in the blogosphere selling pageviews on the backs of dead start-ups as there is in E!’s coverage of the Rhianna assault?

Tragedy sells. If it bleeds, it leads. Misery loves company. The Titanic has hit an iceberg and it’s on Youtube.

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