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Amazon Veteran Jeff Blackburn Is Returning to Lead Global Media Group

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Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorJeff Blackburn, a former high-level Amazon exec who just recently left after more than two decades, is coming back — in a newly created role, giving him oversight over a consolidated media group.The new appointment was announced internally Thursday by Andy Jassy, currently CEO of Amazon Web Services (AWS), who is set to succeed Jeff Bezos as Amazon CEO in the third quarter.Blackburn “has decided to return to Amazon as SVP of a new Global Media & Entertainment organization,” Jassy wrote in a memo to employees.

Blackburn’s oversight will include Prime Video and Amazon Studios, Amazon Music, podcasts/Wondery, Audible, games and Twitch.Blackburn, who had departed in February to join Bessemer Venture Partners,.

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