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Jack Dorsey says product VP Kevin Weil, media VP Katie Stanton, engineering VP Alex Roetter, and HR VP Skip Schipper have “chosen to leave” Twitter — Was really hoping to talk to Twitter employees about this later this week, but want to set the record straight now: http://twitter.com/...
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Kara Swisher / Re/code:
Sources: Top choice for Twitter CMO role is American Express marketing VP Leslie Berland — Amex Marketing Executive Tops Twitter CMO List — It's a woman. She is from a major brand company. The hire will report directly to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. — So far, that is the person …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
In wake of executive departures, Twitter stock falls as much as 7% — Twitter Shares Tumble After Exec Exodus — Twitter's stock price fell as much as 7% Monday, after investors reacted to the disclosure that four top company executives are flying the coop.
Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
Spotify to roll out video to all Android users this week, iOS users next week, in US, UK, Germany and Sweden; content partners include BBC, Fusion — Spotify Ready to Introduce Video Product — Content from BBC, Maker Studios, ESPN will soon be added to popular music app
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Jane Martinson / Guardian:
Guardian to cut costs by 20%, or just over £50M, in bid to break-even within three years — Guardian News & Media to cut costs by 20% — Publisher of the Guardian and Observer aims to break even within three years and launches a new strategy focusing on future growth
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Profile of Alexander Klöpping, co-founder of paywall startup Blendle, as company prepares to launch in U.S — The Dutch tech whiz who could save journalism — Alexander Klöpping is taking his vision for a journalistic iTunes to the US. — UTRECHT, The Netherlands …
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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with Quartz Publisher Jay Lauf about the forthcoming app, adblocking, potential sale, and more — Quartz sees its readers' behaviors evolving, so it's evolving with them: It's launching its first major app — Since its launch in 2012, Quartz has been among the fastest-growing and most closely watched, digital news sites.
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Ken Yeung / VentureBeat:
AOL expands its ‘One’ platform to include tools that help publishers sell to advertisers — AOL has developed an offering that gives publishers a way to monetize their work without having to use tools from multiple companies. Called One by AOL: Publishers, it consolidates the company's portfolio …
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Sahil Patel / Digiday:
Posting sports highlights helped Bleacher Report reach 28.6M Instagram views in December — Bleacher Report did 29 million video views on Instagram in a month — The distributed content model has helped Bleacher Report collect a lot of views on Facebook. Now, it's helping the publisher see growth on Instagram.
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Chava Gourarie / Columbia Journalism Review:
As more news gets distributed on native and social platforms, publishers should weigh how they respond to the shift in control of free speech — Censorship in the social media age — 1965 FBI monograph on Nation of Islam (Wikimedia Commons) — Nearly half a million people had already seen …
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Howard University is using TruthBeTold.news, its site devoted to dispelling myths about African-Americans, as a tool to teach students fact-checking — A Howard project is debunking myths about African-Americans and teaching students fact-checking — In December, NewsOne …
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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Sky Invests $10 Million in Programmatic Ad Tech Firm DataXu — The pan-European pay TV giant has been investing in a slew of technology companies. Pan-European pay TV giant Sky said Monday it has invested $10 million in DataXu, a Boston-based provider of programmatic advertising analytics software.
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