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Peter Sterne / Politico:
Yahoo Tech EIC Dan Tynan is out as the company says it will phase out digital magazines for food, health, parenting, makers, travel, autos, and real estate — The ax falls at Yahoo — Yahoo is shutting down about half of its content verticals, POLITICO Media has learned.
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Barry Petchesky / Deadspin:
SBNation blames breakdown in editorial process for its briefly available profile of ex-police officer and convicted rapist Daniel Holtzclaw — SB Nation Publishes, Deletes “Complete Failure” Of A Story About Convicted Rapist Cop Daniel Holtzclaw — This afternoon, SB Nation's Longform …
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Hollywood Reporter:
ABC Chief Paul Lee Forced Out, Channing Dungey Named Entertaiment President — EMAIL ME — The news comes a year or so after Ben Sherwood replaced Anne Sweeney as President of Disney/ABC TV Group. — ABC Entertainment Group president Paul Lee is out, and his drama chief Channing Dungey will assume his role.
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Facebook announces that all publishers and bloggers worldwide can adopt Instant Articles beginning April 12 — Facebook is opening up Instant Articles to newsrooms everywhere. Will a flood of distributed content follow? — In a long-awaited move, Facebook announced this afternoon …
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Anthony D'Alessandro / Deadline:
NBCUniversal's Fandango buys Rotten Tomatoes and Flixster; Warner Bros. will take minority stake in Fandango — Fandango Acquires Rotten Tomatoes & Flixster From Warner Bros Entertainment — BREAKING: Fandango is set to acquire Flixster and Rotten Tomatoes, which includes …
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Ben Popper / The Verge:
Netflix updated its recommendation algorithms to highlight titles based on global viewing habits earlier this year, ditching regional approach — How Netflix completely revamped recommendations for its new global audience — Before Netflix got into the business of producing its own programming …
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Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
Vox Hires Choire Sicha to Oversee Partnerships With Facebook, Snapchat — Awl Network co-founder will be director of partner platforms — Vox Media has long counted its own content platform as a key to its success. But now it says the future lies in platforms run by others …
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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Bruce Dold is named editor of the Chicago Tribune — The Chicago Tribune changed editors today as Gerould Kern retired after nearly eight years. He will be succeeded by Bruce Dold, the longtime editor of the Tribune's editorial and opinion pages. — Kern, 66, said in a phone interview, “I've worked nearly 45 years without a break.
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Bill Simmons' new site The Ringer to start as an email newsletter launching in mid-March, website to launch in late spring or early summer — Bill Simmons unveils new site's name: The Ringer — Bill Simmons' new Grantland will be called The Ringer, and it will be populated by many ex-Grantland staffers.
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Dawn Chmielewski / Re/code:
Vevo CEO Erik Huggers says company is working on a paid music video subscription service, could launch this year — Vevo Is Working on a Paid Music Video Subscription Service (Video) — The Internet's dominant music video service is working on a subscription offering.
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Adrienne Lafrance / The Atlantic:
Data analysis of gender bias shows 22% of individuals named or quoted by Atlantic reporter in 2015 were female, of total mentions under 19% were female — I Analyzed a Year of My Reporting for Gender Bias (Again) … Every time I write something about diversity in Silicon Valley …
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
With a quarter of its readers coming from abroad, Stat launches a daily Zika email update — At the end of 2015, Stat's global health reporter (and former Nieman Fellow) Helen Branswell named Zika as a global health story to watch. At the time, the mosquito-borne virus wasn't yet grabbing headlines in the United States.
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