Former AOL CEO Set to Oversee Digital Strategy at News Corp.

By SHIRA OVIDE
Former AOL chief executive Jon Miller is close to taking a new role overseeing digital strategy at News Corp., according to people familiar with the matter.

In the position, Mr. Miller is expected to help coordinate digital strategies across News Corp.'s businesses, and he will oversee the company's MySpace social networking site and its investment in Hulu, the online video site. News Corp., which owns Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires, also operates the Fox television network, cable-TV channels including FX and Fox News and a stable of film studios.

Based in New York, Mr. Miller would report to Rupert Murdoch, News Corp.'s chairman and chief executive.

Peter Levinsohn, who is president of News Corp.'s Fox Interactive Media, the division which houses MySpace, is expected to take a top post in the film and television studio, according to people familiar with the matter.

The expected appointment of Mr. Miller continues News Corp.'s overhaul of its leadership after President and Chief Operating Officer Peter Chernin announced he is leaving the company when his contract expires at the end of June. Mr. Chernin has played a key role overseeing News Corp.'s entertainment and digital operations.

News Corp. earlier this month combined its film and television production businesses and promoted two of the company's movie executives, Jim Gianopulos and Tom Rothman, to run the business. All of the Fox TV-entertainment networks will be folded under cable executive Tony Vinciquerra.

Mr. Levinsohn is expected to report to Messrs. Gianopulos and Rothman.

Mr. Miller, a partner at investment firm Velocity Interactive Group, ran AOL from 2002 to 2006, and has been hanging closely on the sidelines of the media and technology world since then. Mr. Miller formed Velocity, which specializes in digital-media investments, with Ross Levinsohn, who used to run Fox Interactive Media. Ross Levinsohn and Peter Levinsohn are cousins.

Write to Shira Ovide at shira.ovide@wsj.com