2 posts and columns on Mickey Wilson

CBS Interactive/CNET Re-Org: The Complete Memo

in Media on December 11, 2008 at 4:37 pm PT

CBS paid $1.8 billion for CNET last summer, and today it is dealing with the consequences: A re-org and layoffs. CBS execs won’t release a total for the number of people fired, so news will be coming out in piecemeal fashion for some time. In the meantime, here’s CBS Interactive’s new corporate structure, detailed in an internal memo distributed late today.

CBS Interactive Exec Patrick Keane Out, Replaced by CNET Counterpart

in Media on December 9, 2008 at 3:00 am PT

We haven’t heard of much bloodletting since CBS bought CNET for $1.8 billion this summer. But obviously there have to be some cuts as the companies merge the network’s CBS Interactive unit with the Web publisher. Here’s one: Patrick Keane, the former Google exec hired as executive vice president and chief marketing officer in February 2007, is out. In his place is Mickey Wilson, who was SVP of marketing at CNET.