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Yahoo News hires Olivier Knox as its first White House correspondent
Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:05:21 -0800
Yahoo News has hired Olivier Knox, Congressional correspondent for Agence France-Press, to be its White House correspondent--the first in Yahoo's 16-year history. Knox--who has spent more than a decade with AFP covering politics, including eight years covering the White House--starts on Feb. 13. He will be based in Washington and report to politics editor Chris [...]
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Fox News on top: Cable net celebrates 10 years at #1 in ratings
Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:05:06 -0800
Last fall, Fox News celebrated its 15th anniversary with a lavish party in New York. Fox News president Roger Ailes, who launched the channel in 1996, toasted 700 or so staffers that night, telling them, "Losing is highly overrated as a learning experience." On Tuesday afternoon, when Nielsen releases its final ratings for the month [...]
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Yahoo News hires Virginia Heffernan as national correspondent
Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:05:32 -0800
More exciting personnel news from the purple mothership: Yahoo News has hired Virginia Heffernan, a veteran of the New York Times, as national correspondent. Heffernan will cover "culture and politics from a digital perspective," the company said in a release. Heffernan will be based in Yahoo's New York offices, reporting to managing editor Hillary Frey. [...]
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News sites on the mobile web: vast room for improvement
Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:38:55 -0800
Many news publishers focus their mobile strategies on platform-specific apps—but the mobile web may actually be more important, since a mobile website is easier to discover, link to, and share from a mobile device. Damon Kiesow, senior product manager for the Boston Globe, recently examined the mobile websites of over 100 U.S. newspapers. Here’s what he found… In this spreadsheet , Kiesow ...
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