Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) vet Time Ed Adler is joining Michael Kassan and Wenda Harris Millard’s MediaLink LLC consultancy as senior partner. Adler served at high levels or headed corporate communications for Time Warner-AOL (NYSE: AOL) Time Warner-Time Warner during some of its highest—and rockiest moments, surviving through the CEO…

Instead of dying, TV is headed for another golden age. That was the pivot of a conversation between Wenda Harris Millard and Dave Morgan at an event sponsored by paidContent’s parent ContentNext, as part of NYC Entrepreneurs Week. The two, who have made news this past month, mostly stuck to…

After a cheerful awards ceremony, Wenda Harris Millard gave a more sobering Sunday night kick-off to the IAB Annual Conference in Orlando, Fl.: advertising dollars are shrinking and they cannot support major media alone. What is “stunning, sobering, mind-blowingly scary,” is Jack Myers’ forecast of a three-year decline—the first time…

“I am so not a Wendy,” Wenda Harris Millard, co-CEO of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (NYSE: MSO), declared, picking up on an audience member’s incorrect reference to her as “Wendy” in the Q&A portion of her interview at ContentNext’s EconWomen conference. Millard also addressed her relationship with Martha (it’s solid…

The big question following the last few weeks following the enormous swings of the financial markets is this: how bad is it going to be? Michael Burgi, editor-in-chief of Mediaweek posed a number of depressing questions to a panel of media luminaries at the Dow Jones/Nielsen Media and Money Conference.…

Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (NYSE: MSO) has set the salaries of its two co-CEOs, Wenda Harris Millard and Robin Marino… According to an 8-K filing, the pair will receive base salaries of $650,000, with a target bonus of 100 percent of the base. The bonus can go as high as…

Wenda Harris Millard, co-CEO of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (NYSE: MSO), told investors on Wednesday that the company was in the midst of “streamlining” its broadcast operations and reorganizing its publishing side.  As a result, a dozen or more staffers have left the company within the past few days, WWD…

Susan Lyne, the outgoing CEO of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia hardly ever missed a chance to trumpet the company’s strengths to marketers and investors at media conferences the past few years. During each presentation, like a lawyer arguing a case, she would put forth an argument that the company’s fortunes…

Susan Lyne has stepped down from her posts as Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia’s (NYSE: MSO) president and CEO. In her place, MSLO is promoting Wenda Harris Millard, president of media, and Robin Marino, president of merchandising, to the roles of Co-CEO, reporting to Charles Koppelman, chairman of the board. Lyne’s…

In a keynote presentation at the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s Ecosystem 2.0 conference last month, new IAB chairperson Wenda Harris Millard sparked a new round of questioning over the rise of ad networks—admonishing fellow media executives not to sell ad inventory like pork bellies, i.e., to the lowest bidder. Rather than…

From the filings and stories, executive salary watch for some media companies:—MSLO: Martha Stewart, founder of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (NYSE: MSO), received $2.06 million in compensation for 2007 while company CEO Susan Lyne received a little over $1 million as the company returned to profitability, reports AP, citing the…

Over the past few weeks, a debate over the use and growing prominence of ad networks and exchanges has been gathering. The recent shuttering of ESPN’s (NYSE: DIS) and the Washington Post’s (NYSE: WPO) respective ad nets, as well as the news that Forbes was starting another one, have given…

Almost a week after Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) unveiled its $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), former chief sales officer Wenda Harris Millard, now president of media for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (NYSE: MSO), offered some reasons for how her previous employer wound up in its current dismal state. During…

With all the focus on Yahoo, it might be easy to lose sight of the changes taking place at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (NYSE: MSO). Wenda Harris Millard’s appointment as president of media signals a shift in organization and an acknowledgment that broadcast, print and internet belong together. MSLO CEO…

Yahoo’s chief sales officer Wenda Harris Millard is leaving the company. paidContent.org has learned that she is joining Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (MSLO) as the Chief Media Officer President, Media.  This change comes amidst other senior management changes in the company, including Jerry Yang taking over as CEO and Susan…