News Corp. Exec Could Go to Disney
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A new contract reportedly would allow Peter Chernin, president of media conglomerate News Corp., to leave without notice for the top post at a publicly traded competitor.
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Microsoft has tapped a former executive at Walt Disney to fill its CIO position, a move that shows the company continuing to fill top executive positions from outside the company.Tony Scott, who most recently was CIO at Walt Disney, will take over that same role at Microsoft in February, reporting to Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner. Scott, who also will be a corporate vice president at Microsoft, replaces Stuart Scott, who&#160;departed the company in November. The two are not related.Scott will manage Microsoft&#39;s 4,000-person IT organization, which is responsible for all of the technology systems supporting the company&#39;s worldwide sales, marketing, and services operations, as well as the enterprise systems and applications for all corporate processes.At Disney, where he was senior vice president in addition to CIO, Scott was the first CIO to manage the entire company&#39;s IT systems, according to Microsoft. Prior to Disney, Scott was CTO at General Motors and vice president of operations at Bristol-Meyers Squibb.There are a lot of new faces in the ranks of upper management at Microsoft, with a rash of them signing on to the company in the last six months. Just last week Microsoft revealed that company veteran Jeff Raikes, president of its Business Division, will&#160;leave the company in September. The company tapped an outside executive -- former Juniper Networks, Macromedia, and Adobe executive Stephen Elop -- to fill that role.Other new hires to the company since last July include: Dan Reed, Microsoft Research director of scalable and multicore computing in November; Robert Youngjohns, president of North American sales and marketing and corporate vice president in November; Brian McAndrews, senior vice president, Advertiser and Publisher Solutions Group in August; and Don Mattick, senior vice president, Interactive Entertainment Business in July.There is likely more new blood to come as Microsoft also confirmed last week several other executive departures: Bruce Jaffe, corporate vice president of corporate development; Charles Fitzgerald, Microsoft&#39;s general manager of platform strategy; and&#160;Rob Short, corporate vice president of the Windows Core Technology group.Apart from CEO Steve Ballmer and Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft&#39;s entertainment and devices division, many of the company&#39;s other top executives have joined the company in the past three years. They include the man widely seen as Gates&#39; successor, Chief Architect Ray Ozzie, who joined Microsoft in 2005. Kevin Turner, Microsoft&#39;s chief operating officer, and Steve Berkowitz, senior vice president of Microsoft&#39;s Online Services Group, also joined the company that year.
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NEW YORK Ruport Murdoch could make New York history if his reported bid to buy a three-story Manhattan penthouse goes through. The New York Times says the (b) billionaire CEO of News Corporation is offering 44 (m) million dollars for the Fifth Avenue pad.
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The Bancroft family agrees to meet the News Corp chief about his $5B offer.
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The Walt Disney Co. DIS.N board  of directors on Tuesday said it expected to find a chief  executive to succeed Michael Eisner by next June and would  consider both outside executives and Disney President and Chief  Operating Officer Bob Iger for the position.
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News Corp. is "in very  active negotiations with all the media companies" to bring  their content to its MySpace property, the firm's top  interactive-media executive said Wednesday.
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News Corp., the New York media giant, is talking with Liberty Media Corp. about an asset swap to get News Corp. out of the satellite TV business.  Specifically, Rupert Murdoch has been talking with Liberty's John Malone about swapping his 19.1 percent voting stake in News Corp.
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News Corp's  president and chief operating officer said on Friday he expected to have contentious negotiations with Apple  over showing its television programs on iTunes.
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Walt Disney Co. President and Chief  Operating Officer Bob Iger gave an upbeat assessment of the  media company's future on Thursday in his first address to Wall  Street since being named the sole internal candidate in the  race to succeed CEO Michael Eisner.
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NEWS Corporation would continue to grow its publishing business in Australia following the company&#39;s move to the US, chairman and chief executive Rupert Murdoch stressed yesterday.
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Rupert Murdoch, who is pursuing a $5 billion bid for Dow Jones & Co., will be the center of attention when the world's biggest media chiefs gather this week at the 25th annual Allen & Co. conference in Sun Valley, Idaho.
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NEW YORK - Walt Disney Co. chief executive officer Michael Eisner will leave the company in 2006 when his contract expires. Eisner&#39;s plan was announced Friday in a letter to the company&#39;s board of directors.
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The family that controls Dow Jones &  Co. said on Thursday that it plans to meet with Rupert  Murdoch&#39;s News Corp. to discuss his $5 billion bid to buy the  company, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
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Media & professional: CEO of Philadelphia Media Holdings expresses interest in buying Wall Street Journal publisher.
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Walt Disney Co.'s chief executive Michael Eisner will leave the giant entertainment company in 2006 when his contract expires, a newspaper reported Friday. Eisner's departure, expected to be announced Friday, would end a two-decade relationship with the media giant, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.
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Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Michael Eisner said he expects to leave the board when he steps down as CEO in 2006, ending speculation that he would switch roles and become chairman of the company.
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Microsoft Corp. has turned to an executive at The Walt Disney Co. to fill a vacancy created when the software maker fired its chief information officer.