Wenner Media is filling the chief digital officer position that Michael Bloom left in November, after just six months on the job: David Kang, who was Hearst’s creative director of content extensions for less than a year, will take on the role starting January 20.

Over the years, the Associated Press has made a profile for itself by syndicating its news across thousands of newspapers both in the U.S. and abroad. Now as newspaper readers move to new platforms like tablets to consume their news content, the AP wants to make sure it is syndicating…

Nearly a year after content syndicator Mochila raised several million dollars in a fifth funding round, the company appears to be winding down, as it has laid off roughly 20 of the company’s remaining staffers. All that remain are a number of part-time engineers, who are keeping the company going…

Rolling Stone magazine will release an iPad app companion this week for its The Beatles: The Ultimate Album-by-Album Guide book this week, as its parent Wenner Media prepares to launch full digital magazine replica apps on the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) tablet next year for its flagship title and US Weekly.

The New York Times is ready to start extending sales of its “all access” digital subscriptions across tablets and smartphones to companies and organizations with more than 50 employees. The introduction of a new structure of paid digital circulation comes as the promotion that gave 100,000 NYT digital subscribers access…

The latest installment of the Twilight movies, Breaking Dawn, enjoyed one of the top-grossing opening weekends of all time (for some inexplicable reason) following its Friday debut. The movie also shared another distinction: it generated the highest percentage of mobile ticketing purchases in Fandango’s history, paidContent has learned.

Spotify is ready to launch in Belgium, Austria and Switzerland, possibly as early as this week, paidContent understands.

So a changing of the guard at mobile ad company 4INFO, which announced a funding round of $14 million just last month: Zaw Thet, the company’s outspoken founder, has left his role as the CEO and is getting replaced by Tim Jenkins, who has worked for a number of tech…

Digital publisher Open Road Integrated Media is getting into e-singles with a new program, “Short Shots,” which will publish short-form fiction and nonfiction.

Teenagers who founded their own start-ups could find themselves featured in titles from Backlit, a new young adult e-book publisher based in Santa Monica. While bestselling YA series like Gossip Girl have centered around the Manhattan elite, Backlit is a product of Silicon Valley and Hollywood—with a first-look agreement from…

After years of employing an ad-hoc community-driven approach to mobile, one of the world’s biggest Web sites is going mobile in a much more organized way. Wikimedia Foundation is currently pitching deals involving a new mobile version of its ubiquitous Wikipedia site that it hopes wireless carriers will offer to…

AOL (NYSE: AOL) is bringing back former ad sales development head Janet Balis to lead sales strategy, marketing and partnerships for the company’s advertising unit. She will report to Ned Brody, chief revenue officer.

Book and magazine publisher Rodale is looking to some of its most popular magazines for content as it introduces e-originals this week. First up are a Runner’s World “Essential Guides” series and a Grete Waitz title, to be followed by a Kindle Single on the Afghanistan War by Men’s Health…

News International has finally decided against introducing usage fees for The Sun’s website and is performing a restructure to place more emphasis on advertising sales, paidContent understands.

Cella Irvine, the digital advertising veteran who was ousted as CEO of the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) Co.‘s About Group, will now be running contextual ad company Vibrant Media. The move comes two months after Vibrant co-founder Doug Stevenson stepped down as CEO.

Welsh-language broadcaster S4C must make significant corporate changes to turn around an online record that is weak, crude and years behind the industry, according to a report it commissioned to influence its digital strategy.

ITV (LSE: ITV) is making 10 dedicated online news producers redundant from regional newsrooms around the UK, as it tries to instill digital capability across its staff, paidContent has learned.

Judges this year have shot down two unorthodox tactics used by the entertainment industry to collect money from file-sharers. But that hasn’t stopped content companies from trying yet another new trick—one that has so far escaped the scrutiny of the courts or the media. We’ve discovered that content owners are…

Lonely Planet has created a separate technology startup in San Francisco to develop next-generation social mobile travel guides together with competitors.