Reuters reports that Jon Miller, chief digital officer of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, will leave the media giant at the end of the month, as part of a wider executive shake-up ahead of the company's split into two distinct publicly traded companies. Miller, a former AOL chief executive, was brought on board in 2009 to help revamp News Corp's digital strategy, with a particular focus on moving away from standalone web properties to digital content distribution.

In recent months, ABC, CBS and NBC have begun airing spots for Captain Morgan rum, Grey Goose vodka, Jack Daniel's whiskey and other brands on late-night television programs such as "Jimmy Kimmel Live!," the "Late Show With David Letterman" and "Saturday Night Live."  Ads for Southern Comfort have run in the same slots this month. The move lets them tap a new stream of revenue as advertisers continue to shift their ad budgets to cable TV, the Internet and online videos. Broadcasters are limiting liquor ads till after 11 p.m. ON cable, many nets air them any time.    

Starting in November, the Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News will publish a smaller version of themselves -- reduced from a width of 48 inches to 44 inches. The cost-cutting move is similar to that undertaken by other papers like the Los Angeles Times. And the papers "will need to be 'more judicious' with story length," writes Peter Van Allen, quoting a company memo.

Cable news networks are using this year's presidential conventions, set to kick off on Sunday with the Republicanfest in Tampa, Fla., "to expand, shore up or win back audiences for the rest of the campaign," writes Jeanine Poggi. "But the conventions may matter most this year to third-place CNN, whose ratings hit a 21-year low in the second quarter," she continues. So CNN's pumped-up coverage will feature two new 90-minute documentaries, one on each of the presidential candidates, and "a robust digital strategy that includes topical blogs, web shows, viewer content via the iReport program, live streams for …

Hallmark Channel is changing its logo and tagline to show that it is growing "beyond the movie of the week genre for which it has become known," writes Lesley Goldberg. Starting Oct. 1, Hallmark will be known as "The Heart of TV." It will retain its "100-plus-year-old signature crown, updating it with the tagline and a colorful palate to promote efforts including its first scripted series, 'Cedar Cove,' starring Andie MacDowell," according to Goldberg.

"I am posting to those of you who feel the need to slam us on our own page. Yes, you will be deleted," wrote the executive editor of The Sentinel, in Hanford, Calif., on the newspaper's Facebook page. Jim Romenesko posted this on his site, triggering many thoughtful comments about the issue of monitoring public comments. "It is a fine line," as one commenter put it, since announcements of comment-deleting often bring up accusations of "censorship" and being "thin-skinned." We especially liked this response: "A recent post to our newspaper's Facebook wall called us a 'bunch of …

NBC News is the latest content partner added to Microsoft's XBox Live, in an app that will "include breaking news clips, as well as features and commentary from various NBC News shows" such as "The Rachel Maddow Show" and "Morning Joe," writes Ryan Lawler.  This move is part of Microsft's strategy of "pushing the game console into the center of the living room as more of a digital entertainment hub," according to Lawler.

Modern Luxury magazine, which already has a Manhattan version, will be launching a Hamptoms edition next year, set for a bimonthly publication schedule. "Cristina Greeven Cuomo, who recently came on board to edit Modern Luxury Manhattan, will do double duty as editor of Modern Luxury Hamptons," writes Keith Kelly. "That means the arriviste will be squaring off against Niche’s Gotham and 30-year-old Hamptons Magazine." Kelly also dives into the recent history of the company since its 2010 purchase by the Dickey family, "which runs radio giant Cumulus Media." According to Kelly, "The transition hasn’t been exactly smooth. 'I’ve never worked …

Apparently there's a countertrend to the skinny-is-better tradition in the fashion world, with magazines now air-brushing models for the illusion of curves, as exemplified by the "prominent bust and hips" of Lady Gaga on the cover of September Vogue, writes Hollie McKay. We love this quote: "The bootylicious-ness of the Beyonce, the J-Lo, and the Kim Kardashian effect is contagious, and Hollywood runs things more than models nowadays. It is definitely not about make-me-look skinny, it is make me look sexy and curvy. And we’re also seeing a trend in cleavage,” says celebrity stylist Phillip Bloch. Isn't this …

The New York Times may be selling About.com to Barry Diller's IAC/Interactivecorp, which just made a bid of more than $300 million for the Web site -- higher "than the $270 million offer that the Times Co has preliminarily accepted from Answers.com," according to an anonymous source cited by Peter Lauria and Jennifer Saba. Naturally, everyone involved declined to comment further on the record.