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Obama, Phelps spur on traffic growth.

—Lonely Planet : Lonely Planet, the travel brand owned by BBC Worldwide, has hired Dow Jones' digital strategy and operations SVP Matthew Goldberg as its new CEO. He will replace Judy Slatyer. Goldberg had led the Wall Street Journal Digital Network's business operations, including those for WSJ.com, MarketWatch, Barrons.com and AllThingsDigital.com. When he starts with Lonely Planet in March, he will be charged with maintaining its core printed travel guides business and growing its digital and multiplatform opportunities.

If you're exploring new opportunities during the holiday break, here are some choice jobs in digital media:

The digital side of the business is supposed to be the salvation for magazine companies, which, like their newspaper counterparts, are shedding print jobs.
But as a recent NY Observer piece suggests, digital staffers are hardly protected. And in a few cases, they're bearing the brunt of the layoffs.

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) seems to be in the home stretch of retooling its entire ad-sales division: Bill Shaughnessy, Microsoft's global VP of sales, marketing and services is departing. There's been no official word on why the 15-year vet, who has experience on both the product and ad sales sides of MSFT's business, is leaving.

A rare bit of good media news: It seems as if Time magazine's holiday cookie budget escaped the Time Inc. cutbacks. Sweet!

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Photo by Sean Driscoll; cookies by Veronica's Treats.

Free Snapple—and Rainbow Room memberships—no more.

A much expected move has happened: Richard Parsons, the former CEO of Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), is now stepping down as the Chairman of the company board, and current CEO Jeff Bewkes will take over, starting Jan 1 next year. Bewkes took over from Parsons as CEO in January this year.

About Prescott


Prescott Shibles has served as Vice President of New Media for Penton Media, Prism Business Media and Primedia Business. Prescott's expertise covers search engine optimization, email marketing, online content strategy, writing for the web, online advertising sales, and vertical search.

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