Content Matters: Content Industry Hires

A few moves of note this week in the content industry.

Dow Jones has recruited Gordon McLeod to serve as President, Dow Jones Online. McLeod, who will report to Todd Larsen, will oversee the Wall Street Journal Online, Barron's Online and MarketWatch.com. McLeod previously held various roles at Time, Inc., most recently serving as General Manager of Time Inc. Interactive. Prior to that, he served as President of Time's SI.com.
According to PaidContent, McLeod's role will be an expansion of the GM role previously held by Nathan Richardson, who left Dow Jones earlier this year to pursue a humanitarian position with the International Rescue Committee's Liberia office.

VNU has named David Calhoun CEO and Chairman of the Executive Board, succeeding CFO and interim CEO Rob Ruijter. Calhoun comes to VNU from GE, where he served as CEO of GE Infrastructure and Vice Chairman of the parent company. At GE, he oversaw a collection of businesses with revenues of more than $47 billion and 85,000 employees. Calhoun came up through the GE management program, spending 27 years with the Company before joining VNU.