The search for a new CEO for also-ran online video site Dailymotion has ended, as Cédric Tournay (pictured) has agreed to take the reins of the Paris-based site, the company said in an e-mailed announcement. Tournay is the former CEO of European health portal Doctissimo.

Book publisher Penguin’s digital director Genevieve Shore is being promoted to digital strategy director for the whole of parent Pearson (NYSE: PSO). Shore joined Penguin in 2002 and had led its digital operations, including its ebook strategy, for the last two years, Publishers Weekly says. In a group as diverse…

Conde Nast’s overseas digital arm CondeNet International has found its replacement for recently departed international new media president Stefano Maruzzi - it’s former OpenAds CEO and Skype Europe GM James Bilefield, as his LinkedIn profile shows.

We knew something was up when MySpace’s UK MD Anthony Lukom pulled out of C21’s Social Media Forum last month - the following day, MySpace said it was cutting 350 of its 450 international staff. Now Lukom appers to be one of them. Europe MD Rebekah Horne will cover for…

Online TV re-broadcaster Zattoo has lost its UK country manager Alex Guest, who is leaving the company to launch his own forthcoming TV site TVPixie.com. Guest, who joined Zurich-based Zattoo in 2008 told paidContent:UK the new consumer site wouldn’t be a TV streaming competitor to his old employers but an…

Just a few months after rival *Activision* brought in *Yahoo* vet Dan Rosensweig to head up its Guitar Hero division, comes news that MTV Games has added two new senior execs to its roster to prep for the launch of The Beatles: Rock Band. THQ’s former EVP of publishing Scott…

BBCWW’s Lonely Planet is hiring the CEO of UK online dating network Allegran as its new global online director.  Kelly Brough will report to Matt Goldberg, who replaced Judy Slatyer as CEO when he joined from being Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) digital SVP in January.

Former BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) CEO Tony Ball - amongst the frontrunners to be named ITV (LSE: ITV) CEO - is joining BT’s board from mid-July as a non-executive director. Ball’s is the only name to concretely emerge as a candidate to replace Michael Grade. It’s unclear whether the appointment makes…

Robert Thomson continues his remake of the Wall Street Journal‘s global structure with the hiring of former Sunday Telegraph editor Patience Wheatcroft as editor-in-chief for Europe. Starting next month, she’ll be responsible for relocating the European HQ from Brussels (who knew?) to London, where it will get join the newspaper…

BBC.com MD Kym Niblock is leaving the corporation, 19 months after taking the role; New York-based EVP Luke Bradley-Jones will add her responsibilities to his role, MediaWeek says. Niblock joined in November 2007 after being one of BBC Worldwide’s online launch directors and, earlier, BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) broadcast operations head.…

—Guardian News & Media: The publisher’s North America CEO Caroline Little is tapping a former WashingtonPost.com colleague, Jim Brady, as digital editorial consultant. Brady will advise GNM on its US online expansion on a six-month contract, reporting to editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger. Brady was WashingtonPost.com executive editor until December and Little…

After what has been a revolving door of comings—but mostly goings—at Google (NSDQ: GOOG) in Europe during the last six months, now country manager for Italy Massimiliano Magrini has moved on to become an investor in digital media. He says, via Thestartup.eu, that he wants to re-create Silicon Valley in…

Lastminute.com founder and web 2.0 celebrity Martha Lane Fox has been appointed a “digital champion” by the government to help increase broadband access among the 17 million Britons, mainly the elderly and unemployed, who don’t currently have it. The newly re-branded Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) wouldn’t confirm…

Talk about bad timing: five days before the scheduled release of the long-awaited Digital Britain report, The Times reports that its principle author, communications minister Lord (Stephen) Carter is to stand down from his post and return to the private sector. There’s no confirmation of this from the Department of…

AOL’s Europe CEO Dana Dunne is the latest to be hit by AOL’s new broom - he’s leaving the company after a European reorg, NMA says and a spokesperson confirmed to us: “Earlier this year, the AOL (NYSE: TWX) leadership made a decision to make some changes to the organisation…

—Berners-Lee helps Brown: Struggling to stay credible amid flagging support and a political malaise, Gordon Brown has brought father of the World wide Web Sir Tim Berners-Lee in to his “government of all talents” as an advisor on releasing official data. Brown told Parliament in a speech on Wednesday: “So…

BT (NYSE: BT) Vision, still slowly making in-roads in to Sky and Virgin’s pay-TV empires with its hybrid Freeview-IPTV box, is losing its CEO Dan Marks. The service has added 102,000 customers this year to hit 500,000, but Marks tells FT.com and Telegraph.co.uk hitting the target of two to three…

—Mindshare: Simon Andrews, global digital strategy officer at WWP’s digital agency Mindshare, has left the company and says he will be “spending the summer looking at the opportunities for a new business focused on content and services for smart phones”. He writes on his blog: “I see the most exciting…

LA-based online advertising startup The Rubicon Project has picked former MySpace European VP Jay Stevens to lead a UK roll-out as VP and GM of international. Stevens was one of MySpace’s first non-US exec appointments when he helped found MySpace UK in 2006, but moved to be SVP of audience…