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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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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 …


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.


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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FishbowlNY, Mashable, RAIN News, Forbes, Variety, 9to5Google, TIME, NBC News, Tech Times, BGR, Business Insider, Gizmodo, Phandroid, @pkafka and The Verge


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


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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@macloo, @estheraddley, @ianbirrell, @alexgspence, The Next Web, @alexgspence, @rafat and @nicola_slawson


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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AdExchanger and @dangillmor
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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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Ad Age, TechCrunch, AdExchanger and Business Insider


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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@jamiemottram and @whatthebit


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 …


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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@eugene_scott


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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Life Style Extra, Broadband TV News and Indian Television Dot Com