Posts Tagged ‘Jon Miller’

MySpace co-president Jason Hirschorn is leaving the company and moving back to New York. Michael Arrington at TechCrunch broke the news earlier this afternoon, and News Corp. has since confirmed it.

Hirschorn joined MySpace in April, 2009.

News Corp. digital chief Jon Miller released the following statement:

We fully respect Jason’s decision to leave and his personal desire to return to New York. As many people know, Jason is like family to me, and as expected, he’s done everything we asked of him and more. We’re incredibly grateful for the passion and enthusiasm he brought to the company. And as I know Jason agrees, Mike Jones has done an outstanding job leading MySpace into its next evolution and is the right person to take the reins. There are no plans to bring in additional management.

Valleywag’s Ryan Tate has the wrap on last night’s Founder’s Club Internet Week bash here in New York:

There were so many old-media bigwigs at the Internet Week event, it’s surprising there were any admission badges left for Web startups. Bonnie Fuller, Jeff Zucker, Steven Brill and Jimmy Fallon joined Rupert Murdoch and Barry Diller. Myspace’s Jon Miller and AOL’s Tim Armstrong represented the new blood. There was enough space left over for a substantial contingent of New York Web entrepreneurs; the rope-line squeeze might have erupted into a media war had more of Silicon Valley turned up for Gotham’s promotional festivities.

Gawker’s Nick Denton, Mahalo’s (and formerly Weblogs, Inc.’s) Jason Calacanis and Business Insider’s Henry Blodget.

Our boss was there too, Tweeting away…

The WSJ reports former AOL CEO Jon Miller will be named to a post heading up digital strategy for News Corp.

Miller will oversee MySpace as well as News Corp.’s investment in Hulu, the paper reports.

Peter Levinsohn, who is president of News Corp.’s Fox Interactive Media, is expected to move to the Fox film and TV studio.

Michael Wolff has a bold prediction about News Corp.’s digital strategy with Miller on board: Murdoch buys Twitter!