In 2008, Terra Firma hired the guy who ran the company which makes Cillit Bang and Air Wick to turn EMI Music around. But now the record label finds itself seeking a reported £100 million to avoid breaching banking covenants. So now executive chairman Elio Leoni-Sceti is on his way…

David Dorn doesn’t flinch when the C word—“cheesy”—comes up during an interview about Rhino Entertainment. He embraces it, talking about the two extremes of the Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) catalog division—a “really great sense of humor” that can result in something like Golden Throats, the series of compilations featuring…

The Nook is only part of Barnes & Noble’s digital strategy. Now that the e-reader is launched and its production problems appear to be resolved, B&N is heightening its focus on another major area: selling digital content through its own site and device, and through other devices like the upcoming…

Online ad vet Eric Bader (image) is coming back to the traditional agency business after leaving that segment three years ago to help found mobile ad and marketing consultant Brand In Hand. Interpublic Group media shop Initiative has hired Bader as its first worldwide digital strategy officer. He’ll report directly…

Newspaper website veteran Rusty Coats is leaving his post as VP of interactive for the newspaper division of The E. W. Scripps, E&P reports. In a memo (after the jump) sent to Scripps staffers, Coats, who was instrumental in establishing the Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Newspaper Consortium, also said that he’s…

Another batch of changes at AOL (NYSE: AOL) as ex-Googler David Eun moves into his new role of president, AOL Media and Studios. Two are meant to buttress AOL’s ambitious content management plans: David Mason, the co-founder and CEO of recent acquisition StudioNow, as SVP-AOL Content Platform, reporting to Eun,…

New investment bank Code Advisors has picked up some senior banking expertise with the hiring of Chris Scarborough, an 11-year vet of Credit Suisse with significant Silicon Valley tech-media experience. Scarborough doesn’t have a formal title—the “next-gen” firm co-founded by for CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) CEO Quincy Smith, Fred Davis…

Mitch Lazar, Yahoo’s European Mobile managing director, is stepping down from his post after working at the company for four and a half years. Lazar marks one of many recent departures from Yahoo’s mobile group. Over the past year-or-so, departures range from all the way at the top, like Marco…

Thumbplay has hired an exec away from Apple’s iPhone ranks to bulk up its team as it attempts to transform the ringtone company to a full-track music download service for the phone and PC. Pablo Calamera, who oversaw the launch of Apple’s MobileMe cloud services, will serve as the company’s…

A restructuring is on the way for the revenue side of the Associated Press, with changes coming as soon as next week as part of Jane Seagrave’s recent promotion to chief revenue officer and the creation of new business unit AP Gateway. Among the changes: paidContent has learned that Jeff…

Paul Greenberg (image, left) is leaving his job as EVP/GM at TV Guide Online to become digital president of Time (NYSE: TWX) Inc.‘s Lifestyle Group. He’ll start in mid-March and report to Lifestyle Group President Steve Sachs. Time Inc. formed the Lifestyle Group about a year and a half ago…

This one is sure to set off a round of “say what’s”: Michael Wolf, the former president and COO of MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA), is launching a new consulting firm called Activate—with technologist and high-profile blogger Anil Dash as partner. Nothing surprising, of course, about Wolf being a consultant. He…

As MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA) ad execs begin meeting with marketers and media buyers for this year’s upfront, the Viacom unit is putting some finishing touches on reshaping its digital team. Later this morning, MTVN will announce that Suzanne McDonnell (image, left) will lead the Digital Fusion unit, while Heather…

A very high-profile hire for fashion site Polyvore. The startup, which lets users mix and match products from any online store and then share their creations with others, has added Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, who formerly led Google’s operations in Asia-Pacific and Latin America, as CEO. Singh Cassidy had left Google…

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is combining oversight for all its display advertising under one executive, as the search giant continues to build its non-search business, AdAge reports. Barry Salzman (image, left), a former DoubleClick exec who most recently was ShopWiki’s COO and, before that, CEO of digital out-of-home ad firmYCD Multimedia,…

iCopyright has appointed Andrew Elston (image, left) as its new CEO, succeeding founder Mike O’Donnell. Elston, a former VP of content licensing at Primedia (NYSE: PRM), has been with iCopyright for nearly four years as VP, publisher services. He held earlier executive posts at paid content tech company Qpass and…

In a move that could signal that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) plans to double down on its Google Checkout online payments system, the company has hired long-time eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) executive Stephanie Tilenius as its first VP of commerce, we have confirmed. Tilenius had spent nine years at eBay, most recently…

Yet another Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) board member is leaving. The company says that billionaire Ron Burkle who has served on the company board since 2001 won’t stand for re-election so that he can “devote more time to his other business interests.” Burkle’s departure means that a fourth of Yahoo’s 12-member…

Richard Sambrook, director of global news for the BBC, announced in his blog last December that he would be leaving the broadcaster. Today we found out where he is going. He is moving to Edelman, where he will be the PR firm’s global vice chairman and its first chief content…