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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Nate Silver has hired 15 journalists for FiveThirtyEight and plans relaunch “early this year” — Status Update: Building FiveThirtyEight — We're continuing to build our team of journalists at FiveThirtyEight as we prepare for re-launch with our partners at ESPN and ABC News early this year.
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@nycjim, @mikepetroff, @prof_bearb, Mashable, @jayrosen_nyu, The Next Web, @brianstelter, @burger and @dansinker
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Ezra Klein vs. Nate Silver: The Wonk Super Bowl
Ezra Klein vs. Nate Silver: The Wonk Super Bowl
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@chanders and @anamariecox
John Biggs / TechCrunch:
Lance Ulanoff Out As Editor Of Mashable — Lance Ulanoff, former editor-in-chief of PCMag.com, has been moved to an editor-at-large and chief correspondent position at Mashable, effectively removing him from the EIC position at that title. — A source close to the move said Jim Roberts …
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Talking Biz News
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Alexandra Steigrad / WWD:
More Layoffs to Hit Time Inc. — TIME TO GO?: Time Inc. staffers are bracing for layoffs, which could come as early as next week, WWD has learned. — Word of the job cuts came last month, when Time Inc. chief executive officer Joe Ripp told employees during a quarterly corporate meeting …
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Capital New York, Mediawire Daily and FishbowlNY
Brent Lang / The Wrap:
Comcast Earnings: Profits Up 28 Percent Thanks to Broadcasting, Theme Parks — Comcast's profits spiked 28.6 percent during the cable giant's fourth quarter thanks to its resurgent primetime broadcast line-up and higher attendance at its Universal Studios theme parks.
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Radio & Television …, @timkarr, CNBC, Los Angeles Times and Bloomberg
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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Comcast CEO: NBC Turnaround Is Happening ‘Faster’ Than Anticipated
Comcast CEO: NBC Turnaround Is Happening ‘Faster’ Than Anticipated
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Hollywood Reporter
Mike Isaac / Re/code:
Medium, Evan Williams's Post-Twitter Media Startup, Raises $25 Million Round — Medium is about to become large. — The collaborative publishing startup has just closed a $25 million round of financing, the company confirmed, marking its first major funding raise since it launched a little more than a year ago.
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VentureBeat, TechCrunch, The Verge, @af, @thinkup, @al0nd0n, @_bsiddiqui, @nbj914, @jason, Mashable, @goldman, @rsarver and @mg
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Sue Douglas leaves Trinity Mirror as People.co.uk closes — Company says Sunday People's first dedicated seven-day digital version did not hit expected traffic targets — Sue Douglas, hired seven months ago to take charge of Trinity Mirror's Sunday People, is leaving the company …
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@buzzfeedben, @marksweney and @flashboy
Staci D. Kramer / Nieman Journalism Lab:
“I see this as the next CNN”: Jason Calacanis' Inside.com aims to solve news on mobile devices — In the 13-plus years since the original ahead-of-its-time Inside.com launched, it's been part of a Steve Brill mashup, a dead domain, a planned flagship brand that didn't happen, and a dormant asset waiting to be exploited.
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@jenny8lee, @jbenton and @niemanlab
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Inside's News Is Longer Than Twitter, Shorter Than Business Insider and Jason Calacanis Says You'll Love It
Inside's News Is Longer Than Twitter, Shorter Than Business Insider and Jason Calacanis Says You'll Love It
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The Verge, Business Insider, @digiphile, Capital New York, WebProNews, @antderosa, @digidave, @pkafka and @danielfletcher
Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:
Jason Calacanis launches Inside, a mobile news-curation app powered by humans
Jason Calacanis launches Inside, a mobile news-curation app powered by humans
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CNET, TechCrunch, INSIDE, @mickhagen, @mathewi, @peterc, @jason and The Next Web
Guardian:
Mark Thompson to face MPs again over failed £99m Digital Media Initiative — Maragret Hodges, MP who chairs public accounts committee, calls saga ‘catalogue of how not to run a major programme’ — Mark Thompson is to face more questioning by MPs about his time in charge of the BBC next week …
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
First Look Media Rethinking Newsroom Structure Ahead Of Launch — NEW YORK — After a couple months on the job, Eric Bates doesn't yet have a title at First Look Media. — “We're all working very collaboratively now,” Bates said in an interview with The Huffington Post. “We're not worried about titles or positions.
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Mediawire Daily, Politico and Poynter
Lucia Moses / Adweek:
Business Insider investing in paid content, expanding BI Intelligence unit — Business Insider Has Ambitious Paid Content Plans — Business Insider is known for its clicky mix of business and gossip content, delivered in the form of rapid-fire posts, slideshows and videos.
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Business Insider and @lmoses
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Q4 2013 Earnings Slide 6% To $1.27B On EPS Of $0.46, Display Ads Down 6% — Yahoo today reported its earnings for the fourth quarter of 2013, where it reported GAAP revenues of $1.27 billion and non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.46. Excluding traffic acquisition costs, revenues were $1.2 billion.
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Yahoo, Forbes, VentureBeat, CNET, Reuters, @dkberman, @samgustin, Business Insider, Re/code and Digits
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
YouTube, news sites will livestream the State of the Union — YouTube will livestream President Obama's State of the Union address at 9 p.m. eastern, according to a press release from YouTube, “followed by the Republican response by Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers on Speaker Boehner's channel.
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FishbowlDC, Yahoo News, Capital New York, New Yorker, The Verge and Featured stories
William Launder / Wall Street Journal:
News Websites Proliferate, Stretching Thin Ad Dollars — Many Generate Revenue by Hosting Conferences — Big profits in online news may be as scarce as buried gold but that isn't deterring journalists and investors from rushing into the sector. — In the past few months …
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@edwardroussel, @sarahneedleman, @jessmarmor, @bryfitz, @garciaruize, @jenniferpreston, @lheron, @aburnspolitico, @evanasmith, @mattyglesias and @jbenton
Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
GetGlue becomes tvtag, focuses on curated TV moments — Remember GetGlue? The social TV pioneer got bought by Utah-based social TV startup i.TV late last year, and now, GetGlue's user base is being transitioned to a new app dubbed tvtag that takes some elements of the original and combines …
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AdAge, VentureBeat, @trevordoerksen, Digital Trends, TechRadar.com, Digital TV Europe, Lost Remote, The Next Web and App Advice
Liana B. Baker / Reuters:
Comcast in talks to license technology to Cox -sources — (Reuters) - Comcast Corp, the No. 1 U.S. cable operator, is in advanced discussions about licensing its “X1” video operating system to Cox Communications, the third-largest cable operator, according to people familiar with the matter.
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CNET