Executive Transactions

News Corp. officially named former AOL CEO JON MILLER to a new role "overseeing its digital strategy." Miller will report directly to News Corp. Chair & CEO RUPERT MURDOCH, and will oversee Web sites such as FoxSports.com, MySpace.com and News Corp.'s investment in Hulu (WALL STREET JOURNAL, 4/2)....Illinois-based Axiom Marketing Inc. named CONNIE KOWAL VP/Marketing (CHICAGO TRIBUNE, 4/2)....Rowing Canada named former Canadian Amateur Diving Association Program Dir DONNA ATKINSON Exec Dir (CP, 4/1)....Crafton Tull Sparks promoted NATHAN JACOB KOOB to Dir of Sports (Crafton Tull Sparks).

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