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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Sources: Politico co-founder and CEO Jim VandeHei, Playbook author Mike Allen, and COO Kim Kingsley leaving later this year — Politico's Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen departing — Politico is about to lose three of its most powerful and longtime leaders.
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New York Times, Re/code, @byrontau, The Huffington Post, USA Today, Mediaite, @thefix, The Huffington Post, @hunterw, @mathewi, @rafat and The Daily Caller
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Jim VandeHei / Politico:
Politico CEO Jim VandeHei memo says he'll stay through election, plans a new venture — A memo from POLITICO CEO Jim VandeHei — A memo from POLITICO CEO Jim VandeHei: — “So now you know the news: I am leaving POLITICO after the election. — The timing is poetic: it will mark my 10th Anniversary, almost to the day.
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Washington Post, @abeaujon, @dylanbyers, @derekwillis, @johnmcquaid and FishbowlDC
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
VandeHei drove Politico's global ambitions and workaholic competitive edge, forcing competitors to try to keep up — Politico implodes — In what can be described only as a cataclysm in Beltway media, CEO Jim VandeHei is leaving Politico, the eight-year-old politics website that shook …
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The New York Observer, @raju, @nickwoltman, @jayrosen_nyu, @steveking_, @margarita and @mccarthyryanj
Robert Allbritton / Politico:
Politico publisher Robert Albritton on transition: VandeHei, Kingsley, Allen, 2 others to leave this year; Albritton will be CEO, John Harris, publisher and EIC — A memo from POLITICO's founder and publisher Robert Allbritton — A memo sent by Robert Allbritton, founder and publisher of POLITICO:
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The Wrap, Washington Times, @kimkingsley, @thefix and @r_allbritton
Peter Sterne / Politico:
Huffington Post starts appending an editor's note to all Trump stories, calling him a liar, racist, and a bully — HuffPost to publish anti-Trump kicker with all Trump coverage — The Huffington Post has started appending an editor's note to the bottom of posts about Republican presidential …
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The Wrap, ThinkProgress, The Daily Caller, @elascity, The Wrap, Mediaite, Business Insider, @ariannahuff, @jayrosen_nyu, @bkcolin and The Week
Vadim Lavrusik / Facebook:
Facebook expands ability to share live video to all iPhone users in the US, rest of the world over coming weeks, Android users soon — Expanding Live Video to More People — In December, we started testing the ability for people to share live video on Facebook, and it has been inspiring …
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TechCrunch, Adweek, SlashGear, Wall Street Journal, Guardian, Ubergizmo, ZDNet, Digital Trends, Lifehacker, PhoneDog.com, MacRumors, Variety, Tech Insider, VentureBeat, Tech Times, The Next Web, mUmBRELLA, Engadget, VideoInk, The Verge, iMore, TIME, SocialTimes, Groovy Gecko and 9to5Mac
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Kelsey Sutton / Politico:
MTV News hires Ana Marie Cox, Jaime Fuller in effort to boost politics coverage — MTV News is looking to ramp up its politics coverage, hiring Wonkette founding editor and New York Times Magazine contributor Ana Marie Cox, as well as New York magazine Daily Intelligencer reporter Jaime Fuller.
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@wesleylowery, Mediaite, @fierman, @antderosa, @hollyanderson, @kelseymsutton, @anamariecox, @pe_feeds, @tim_bays and @mostlyinane
Wall Street Journal:
Time Warner Cable CEO Rob Marcus says he expects increased a la carte TV access will help push down high programming costs over long term — Time Warner Cable Sees Chance to Resist Rising Cost of Carrying Channels — Online, stand-alone Web services potentially diminish channel owners' leverage, CEO Marcus says
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DSLreports, International Business Times, The Wrap, Multichannel News and The Wrap
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Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon misses Q4 expectations with $35.75B in revenue, best-ever net income of $482M; stock down 11% after hours — Amazon Reports Best Quarterly Profit Ever — Shares, though, tumble as results fall below analyst expectations — Amazon.com Inc. reported the largest quarterly profit …
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The Wrap, Amazon.com, @jasonabbruzzese, GeekWire, TechCrunch, Forbes, BuzzFeed, @mgsiegler, @benpopper, @jonerlichman, GeekWire, VentureBeat, GeekWire, ZDNet, Re/code and @mathewi
Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / The New York Observer:
How the New Yorker has embraced multimedia storytelling and introduced a radio show, podcasts, a documentary, an Amazon series, and a three-day festival — No Escape From The New Yorker — How the proudest and stodgiest of legacy publications transformed into a multimedia juggernaut
Daniel Roberts / Yahoo! Finance:
High Times looks to grow audience with marijuana seal of approval, ratings and reviews, and by targeting entrepreneurs — As marijuana economy grows, High Times aims to be more than a magazine — Hood River County Library, in Hood River, Ore., may soon add a slick publication to its collection …
Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Las Vegas Review Journal names former USA Today head Craig Moon as publisher — Review-Journal names former USA Today head as publisher — Craig Moon has been named publisher of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the newspaper announced Thursday. — Moon, 65, is the former president …
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@jayrosen_nyu, @reviewjournal, New York Times, @dankennedy_nu, @rickedmonds, The Charlotte Observer, @jayrosen_nyu and Pressthink
John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable:
FCC votes to require records of political cable, satellite, and radio ads be posted online in searchable database — Cable, Satellite, Radio Public Files Heading to FCC — Commission votes to expand online reporting requirement — The FCC has voted to approve an order requiring cable …
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Multichannel News, Radio & Television …, The National Memo and The Hill
Kamal Ahmed / BBC:
James Murdoch named Sky chairman, four years after he stepped down as BSkyB chairman — James Murdoch takes over at Sky — James Murdoch is to become one of the most powerful figures in European television, becoming the chairman of Sky, Britain's subscription broadcaster.
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Variety, Hollywood Reporter, Sky News and @skynewsbreak
Andy Malt / Complete Music Update:
Amazon launches Prime Stations personalised radio service in the UK — Amazon has added its Prime Stations personalised radio service for subscribers to the free-delivery-with-added-content set-up in the UK. It expands on the Prime Music on-demand streaming service, which has also just had a new lyrics feature added to it as well.
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Connecticut's The Middletown Press newspaper's newsroom goes virtual, with reporters working from the communities they cover — Journalists at The Middletown Press will soon no longer have an actual newsroom — The Middletown Press' office space is going virtual as of Feb. 1 …
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Hartford Courant and The Middletown Press