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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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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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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:
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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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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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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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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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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Jefferson Graham / USA Today:
Local journalists find success broadcasting on Facebook Live
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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
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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Mark Joyella / TVNewser:
Fusion launching The Naked Truth on Sunday, a cross-platform investigative series aimed at young, diverse audiences — Creating an Investigative Journalism Franchise for the Daily Show Generation — Fusion has announced a new cross-platform investigative franchise called The Naked Truth.
Julie Schwietert Collazo / IJNet:
Q&A with Snopes.com's Brooke Binkowski: Finding the future of fact-checking — Fact-check site Snopes.com launched in the 1990s, an eon ago in Internet time, and is one of the Internet's organic success stories. Having never been marketed through formal or paid channels …
David Meyer / Fortune:
German regional court rules YouTube does not have to pay royalties each time users watch music videos — YouTube Wins Another Round In German Copyright Tussle — Yet another judge has sided with Google's YouTube in its epic struggle with German music performing rights society GEMA …
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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 …
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Adam Satariano / Bloomberg Business:
Profile of Giphy, a GIF search engine that quadrupled unique visitors to 95M/month in 2015 and is working with advertisers, movie studios, political candidates — How Two Guys Built the Ultimate GIF Search Engine — Deal with it. — One afternoon in December, Giphy's …
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