Talk:Jonathan Miller (businessman)

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there is another source for emmy: informitv articles/2006/04/05/internationalinteractiveemmy/ pohick (talk) 00:38, 27 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

would a better qualifier be (executive)? Pohick2 (talk) 02:41, 21 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Updates[edit]

I work for Rubenstein Communications and on behalf of Jonathan Miller, I'd like to propose the follow updates and additions to the article. To mitigate conflict of interest issues, I ask that an editor please review and leave feedback or edit accordingly. NinaSpezz (talk) 17:15, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

1st sentence

  • I propose dropping the birth year as it's incorrect and the citation used points to another person's profile on Forbes. In order to update the article with Miller's current position, I propose the 1st sentence say:

Jonathan F. Miller is a partner at Advancit Capital. He was CEO of Digital Media at News Corp...

Career

  • To the 2nd paragraph, I'd like to add after the sentence that begins with "1993 to 1997...":

Miller joined USA Networks in 1997 to run its group of local television stations.[1]

  • The quote after the 3rd paragraph is quite long and I'd argue it's no longer relevant and should be considered for deletion.
  • I propose rewriting the following paragraph, which begins "In 2006, he presided over..." to say:

In 2004, Miller oversaw the $435 million acquisition of Advertising.com[2] and led the company's change from a subscription-based model to an advertising-supported model.[3][4][5][6] In 2006, he presided over layoffs of 5,000 people, at AOL.[7] He bought Weblogs, Inc., and brought Jason Calacanis to AOL, and later invested in Mahalo.com.[8] In December 2005, Google bought a 5% stake in AOL for $1 billion.[9] In November 2006, he was replaced by Randy Falco.

  • In the following paragraph, which begins with "Miller was a founding partner...", I propose changing the word "failed" to "defunct", changing "focuses" to "focused", and removing "a passive but powerful" as these words are editorializing the content. The broken wikilinks to Velocity Interactive Group as well as Keyur Patel should also be removed.
  • In the final paragraph of the "Career" section, which begins with "In March 2009 Miller joined...", I'd like to add to the last sentence, just after "Hulu":

as well as News Corp's Chief Digital Officer[10]

Directorships

  • Many of the directorships listed here are not current. I propose rewriting this section to say:

Miller serves on the Board of Directors of Akamai,[11] Interpublic,[12] j2 Global,[13] AMC Networks,[14] and TripAdvisor.[15]

Awards

  • To add to beginning of paragraph:

In 2006, Miller was awarded with the Producers Guild of America’s Vanguard Award.[16]

  • I'd like to remove the broken wikilink to Pioneer Prize.
  • To add to the end of the paragraph:

In 2009, Miller received The Hollywood Reporter’s inaugural Digital Power Play award.[17]

That's not the purpose of the {{help me}} template. No queue jumping, please. Huon (talk) 16:50, 25 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I have provided a link to an archived copy of that Forbes page which, in 2009, said he was 51 years old. I'm pretty sure that's the right Jonathan F. Miller. His current position is hardly why he is notable and does not belong in the lead. I've also gone through the rest of the artile and removed poorly-sourced content, replacing it by better-sourced content as applicable. Huon (talk) 23:04, 25 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@Huon:- Thank you for your help. The birth year is 1956 and not "1957 or 1958". I don't know of any secondary source that supports that, but it is incorrect as currently written.
I understand that Miller's current position doesn't necessarily contribute to notability, but I do believe it contributes to a greater understanding of the subject of the article and could perhaps be added to the end of the career section?
I'm curious why the current directorships at Akamai, Interpublic, j2 Global, and AMC Networks were left out of your update as well as the PGA Vanguard and THR Digital Power Player awards.
Also wanted to see about getting rid of the broken wikilinks that remain (Idearc Media; YP Holdings, LLC; Pioneer Prize).
Thank you again for your time and attention on this. Greatly appreciate it. NinaSpezz (talk) 00:17, 26 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
On March 4, 2009 the then-current Forbes profile reported that Miller was 51 years old. That contradicts a 1956 birthdate. Rather, he must have been born sometime between March 5, 1957 and March 4, 1958. If you can provide a reliable published source that contradicts Forbes, please do.
The directorships and awards were left out due to a lack of reliable third-party sources, and the same goes for his current job.
Unless you want to argue that the entities that currently are redlinks are not valid topics for articles, there's nothing wrong with having those redlinks - that's one way of encouraging articles to be written. Huon (talk) 04:23, 26 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

References

  1. ^ Hansell, Saul (2002-08-06). "TECHNOLOGY; Executive Of Net and TV Is Named Chief Of AOL Unit". The New York Times. Retrieved 2016-03-15.
  2. ^ Oser, Kris (2004-06-24). "AOL Acquires Advertising.com for $435 Million". Advertising Age. Retrieved 2016-03-15.
  3. ^ Frank Ahrens (November 16, 2006). "NBC Veteran To Replace AOL Chief In Shake-Up Miller Out After 4 Years, Switch to Ad-Driven Model". Washington Post.
  4. ^ Staci D. Kramer (15 Nov 2006). "It's Official: Jon Miller Out, Randy Falco In As Chairman and CEO, AOL". paidContent.org.
  5. ^ STEPHANIE N. MEHTA (November 14, 2005). "AOL: The Relaunch". FORTUNE Magazine.
  6. ^ "About Jon Miller". Calacanis weblog. Retrieved April 27, 2009.
  7. ^ Sara Kehaulani Goo (August 4, 2006). "AOL Plans to Cut 5,000 Jobs, Some in Virginia". Washington Post.
  8. ^ Nicholas Carlson (July 1, 2008). "Jason Calacanis says ex-AOL CEO Jon Miller is the man for you, Yahoos". gawker.
  9. ^ Vise, David A. (2005-12-16). "Google Buying Stake in AOL for $1 Billion". Washington Post. Retrieved 2016-03-15.
  10. ^ Swisher, Kara (2012-08-23). "Exclusive: Digital Chief Jon Miller Leaving News Corp". All Things D. Retrieved 2016-03-15.
  11. ^ "Jonathan F. Miller". Akamai. Retrieved 2016-03-15.
  12. ^ "Jonathan F. Miller". Interpublic. Retrieved 2016-03-15.
  13. ^ "Committee Composition". j2 Global. Retrieved 2016-03-15.
  14. ^ "Board of Directors". AMC Networks. Retrieved 2016-03-15.
  15. ^ "Board of Directors". TripAdvisor. Retrieved 2016-03-15.
  16. ^ "PGA Awards". IMDB. Retrieved 2016-03-15.
  17. ^ "Miller set for THR's inaugural Digital Power Player nod". The Hollywood Reporter. 2009-05-11. Retrieved 2016-03-15.
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