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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 Exec 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 who sources …
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Re/code, Hollywood Reporter, @mikeisaac, TechCrunch, @kerrymflynn, The Next Web, Forbes, Variety and @s_m_i
Andrew Thompson / The Awl:
How Philadelphia magazine grew as the city's newspapers dwindled and the alt-weekly died — It's Always Sunny in ‘Philadelphia’ — Last week, H.F. Lenfest, the owner of Philadelphia's daily newspapers, the Inquirer and Daily News, donated the parent company of the papers and their website …
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@ckrewson, @victoriawillens and @jesslbergman
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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Interviews with board members of Philadelphia's new Institute for Journalism in New Media on how it plans to operate — Can Philly's new Institute for Journalism in New Media live up to the enormous hopes pinned on it? — When H.F. “Gerry” Lenfest announced he was donating $20 million …
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Editor & Publisher
CNNMoney:
The final days of Al Jazeera America — Al Jazeera America's employees didn't see it coming. They thought they had more time. — The cable news channel was always a gamble. Everyone knew that — the anchors, the producers, the engineers. And in retrospect, the channel was probably doomed from the get-go.
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@pkafka, @brianstelter, @jimrutenberg, @s_m_i, @reformedbroker, @brianstelter, @gregjkrieg, @jayrosen_nyu, @jayrosen_nyu, @jayrosen_nyu, @_riovo, @bobbymacreports, @tomkludt and @petersterne
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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Life Style Extra, Indian Television Dot Com and Broadband TV News
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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@dangillmor and AdExchanger
Simon Owens:
How Techdirt's Mike Masnick became one of the most influential voices in tech policy — How this blogger became one of the most influential voices in tech policy — In May 2003, the legal website The Smoking Gun posted a short item titled “Barbra Sues Over Aerial Photos.”
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@mmasnick, @aweissman, @eff, @sfmnemonic and @mathewi
Peg Brickley / Wall Street Journal:
Judge reverses order that required 100+ sources to reveal contact with Bloomberg reporters in Molycorp bankruptcy case, says a more tailored approach is needed — Bankruptcy Judge Limits Probe of Bloomberg News Sources — News organization had challenged court order related to disclosures about Molycorp bankruptcy
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Associated Press, USA Today, Reuters, The Huffington Post and rcfp.org
James Warren / Poynter:
Q&A with Dose Media's Emerson Spartz on viral content, old media, and partnership with Tribune Media — The ‘King of Clickbait’ on going viral, why old media stumbles — The “King of Clickbait's” domain in downtown Chicago looks more like a spare and makeshift newspaper newsroom …
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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@jamiemottram and @whatthebit
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 …