Yahoo Hires Kinder As GM, HotJobs; Newspapers Partners Gear For Integration Push

Yahoo, which recently lost Dan Finnegan, the catalyst at its newspaper classifieds project, has now hired Jeff Kinder to replace him. Kinder is charged with heading up all Yahoo HotJobs business, including sales, product, marketing and engineering…this was disclosed yesterday at the Deutsche Bank Media and Telecommunications Conference, reported on by ClickZ. Kinder recently served as SVP for Cendant Corp., a company that includes Orbitz, CheapTickets, Avis, and Century 21.

Meanwhile Hearst, one of the first to joint the newspaper consortium, is making a concerted effort to promote the service to advertisers, said Lincoln Millstein, SVP digital media for Hearst Newspapers, at the conference. Hearst’s newspaper division started selling this in December and “The newspaper division is already for the first six months of this year realizing revenues well into the seven digits

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