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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:
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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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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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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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Sky final half of 2015 pre-tax profits fell £12M to £524M and gained 205K subscribers in second quarter — Sky profits fall but subscribers rise — Sky has reported a £12m fall in pre-tax profits to £524m for the six months to the end of December.
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Alexandra Steigrad / WWD:
David Granger Out at Esquire; Town & Country's Jay Fielden Named Editor in Chief — Another longtime magazine editor is being pushed out - and this time it's at Esquire. After nearly two decades as editor in chief, David Granger, will exit the Hearst-owned men's magazine on March 31.
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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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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
The Economist starts publishing its charts on the messaging app Line — The Economist is publishing charts and other visual content on messaging app Line, the company announced this week. The Economist already promotes its bilingual English-Chinese app, The Economist Global Business Review …
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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 …
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
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Steven Perlberg / Wall Street Journal:
Snapchat launches original campaign show Good Luck America hosted by Peter Hamby on Discover — Snapchat Debuts Political Campaign Show — ‘Good Luck America’ is geared toward young viewers — Snapchat on Thursday launched a new political campaign show on its “Discover” page …
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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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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.
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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 …
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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