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10:20 AM ET, January 29, 2016

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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.
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 …
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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BBC:
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.
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Sky investor: James Murdoch's appointment as chairman is a conflict of interest because of his position at 21st Century Fox  —  James Murdoch's return as Sky chair is a major concern, says investor  —  Shareholder claims new role flouts corporate governance code and is a serious conflict …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Discussion: @elanazak
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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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
Discussion: @nxthompson
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 …
Discussion: Reuters and Telecompaper
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.
Discussion: @tvnewser
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 …
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.
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
Discussion: @lavrusik and USA Today
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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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
Daniel Roberts / Yahoo! Finance:
High Times looks to grow audience with marijuana seal of approval, ratings and reviews, and by targeting entrepreneurs
Discussion: @yahoofinance
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Connecticut's The Middletown Press newspaper's newsroom goes virtual, with reporters working from the communities they cover
Anthony Salamone / Morning Call:
Magazine publisher Rodale announces it's cutting 40 jobs, less than 10% of workforce
Hannah Karp / Wall Street Journal:
Shazam Tests New Waters: Distributing Songs
Discussion: The Verge and AndroidHeadlines.com
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Watchup launches Apple TV news app for personalized, on-demand TV newscasts from 160 sources including CNN, Fox News, CBS, and Tribune Media
Discussion: The Verge
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Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Las Vegas Review Journal names former USA Today head Craig Moon as publisher
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
How newspaper reporters in Washington DC, Detroit, Milwaukee, Atlanta, and Des Moines are experimenting with podcasts
Discussion: @niemanlab
Lizzie Plaugic / The Verge:
Hulu will be the ‘exclusive streaming home’ of all future IFC Films documentaries
William Turvill / Press Gazette:
‘Pushed out’ Panorama reporter Raphael Rowe's farewell email: Diversity at BBC is 'worse than I've ever known'
Discussion: Press Gazette
Lucas Matney / TechCrunch:
T-Mobile adds Amazon Video, Fox News, Univision Now, and WWE Network to Binge On, says users streaming twice as much video than before service
Kaveh Waddell / The Atlantic:
Slack is trying to make it easier for organizations to comply with FOIA document-retention requirements
Discussion: The Hill and @jmooredc
Tara Conlan / Guardian:
Lord Puttnam and Channel 4 launch MBA for media executives
Discussion: @dputtnam