MySpace (NSDQ: NWS), which has overhauled its management team in recent months and is preparing for a major relaunch of its site, has hired Tom Cox as its SVP of business development. Cox was a VP of business development at AOL (NYSE: AOL) until last December. Since then, he had…

The National Hockey League is looking to a programming vet from the National Football League to pull its content strategy together and execute it across all platforms. Charles Coplin is joining the NHL as EVP-content, a new position that reports to COO John Collins. Coplin’s responsibilities include NHL.com; NHL Network;…

Steve Boom is best known for his 10-year stint at Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), where he was repsonsible for the company’s mobile products, and while he hasn’t necessarily gone anywhere, he’s nabbed a more prominent role at Loopt, the location-based mobile company that has been more recently overshadowed by newcomers, like…

Evan Harrison, the long-time head of Clear Channel (OTCBB: CCMO) Radio’s digital operations, is leaving the company at the end of the year. Harrison had been promoted almost exactly two years ago, when he agreed to a “long-term contract” which may have expired; we’ve asked Clear Channel for more details.

Monica Ray, who had been managing Time (NYSE: TWX) Inc.‘s paid content strategy, is taking on a new job at Condé Nast. She has been named EVP for consumer marketing and will report to Robert Sauerberg, Jr., president of Condé Nast. In her new post, which formally begins at the…

Investment banker Terence Kawaja is striking out on his own as a strategic matchmaker. Kawaja has switched from staffer to affiliate at GCA Savvian, leaving to form advisory firm LUMA Partners. In an interview soon after he announced the move by e-mail late Monday afternoon, Kawaja said he is still…

John Foley, who most recently was serving as CEO of IAC-owned comparison shopping site Pronto and was also heading up Evite and Gifts.com, is leaving IAC (NSDQ: IACI) after 14 years at the company. IAC says Foley is being succeeded at Pronto by Darren MacDonald who was previously chief operating…

By Josh Halliday: Caroline Little, the chief executive of Guardian News & Media’s US operation, is to step down from her role with the company. Little will remain chief executive of GNM’s New York-based digital media industry news subsidiary, ContentNext Media.

After nine years with the company, AOL (NYSE: AOL) content exec Marty Moe is getting ready to leave the company, AllThingsD reports, citing unidentified sources. PaidContent has confirmed with sources that the report is correct. Neither Moe nor AOL PR has responded to queries so far. (AOL later said it…

Twitter, which has been building up its sales team since the launch of its ad platform this spring, has hired Fox Audience Network president Adam Bain as president of revenue, TechCrunch reports. In recent weeks, Twitter has made several key sales hires, including adding Facebook media sales director Dan Coughlin…

Matt Prohaska, the former AOL (NYSE: AOL) sales VP who joined online video ad network Smartclip as its North America CEO in March, left the company last month after only five months on the job. He has since started a new online video ad network, which is officially launching today.…

Greg Clayman is leaving his post as MTV’s EVP, digital distribution & business development, and is jumping to News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). to manage its tablet-based news organization, MediaMemo reports. Other the past month, News Corp. has been working on creating a dedicated news unit that would provide content specifically…

Skype’s top engineering executive has left the company for “personal reasons,” the NYT says. Skype had hired Madhu Yarlagadda away from Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) in early July to oversee the company’s engineering and development initiatives as chief development officer, succeeding CTO Dan Berg.

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is shuffling the top management of its MSN portal, six months after rolling out a major redesign of the site. The company has hired Ted Cahall, who left his post as CTO of AOL (NYSE: AOL) in January, as its new corporate vice president of MSN.

Meredith (NYSE: MDP) Corp.‘s Tony Platt isn’t replacing the outgoing Jack Griffin, who will decamp to Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) as CEO next month, but he is being given a larger role within the publisher’s integrated marketing unit. Platt is being promoted from executive creative director to chief creative officer…

Global Radio’s online and interactive director Robin Pembrooke is leaving to fill the vacant managing director post of ITV.com at the UK’s leading commercial broadcaster ITV.

Cameron Death has been promoted to SVP/GM, NBC Universal Digital Studio. The studio, which Death has managed as a VP since its inception two years ago, creates original digital content for the company’s advertisers and distributes it across the various digital, cable and network platforms of NBC Universal (NYSE: GE).…

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is hiring BBC News’ head of development and rights, Madhav Chinnappa, to its partnerships team for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, it tells paidContent:UK, “with a specific focus on helping publishers get the most out of Google News”.

Spotify’s partnerships SVP Paul Brown is leaving after 18 months with the music startup, saying his exit’s on good terms. “I wasn’t looking to leave. But this was an opportunity that came along and which I had to take,” Brown tells MusicWeek.