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paging_filterMic news director Jared Keller has left the company. A source with knowledge of the decision said that Keller’s departure was not voluntary.Keller’s work was the subject of a Wednesday Gawker exposé, in which J.K. Trotter wrote that Keller “appears to have plagiarized at least 20 passages from at least eight different news sources over the…
Mic.com, the news and opinion website aimed at millennials, has a very millennial problem: Its director of news, Jared Keller, appears to have plagiarized at least 20 passages from at least eight different news sources over the past several months. Keller was hired in April of last year as Mic’s director of programming. “Jared will…
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BuzzFeed has named Lee Brown chief revenue officer. Brown was most recently head of global sales for Tumblr. Prior to joining Tumblr, Brown served as senior VP of national sales for Groupon. “Bringing over two decades of sales experience and leadership to BuzzFeed, Lee will be responsible for driving business globally with new and existing revenue…
Twenty years ago, real estate agents were the first to embrace the Internet as an advertising medium. Now, it appears, they’re the first to discover its saturation point. This year, if our forecast is correct, agents and brokers will cut digital advertising by 2%. If that occurs, they’d be the first and only business category…
One question that’s been asked a lot since Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post is how involved he is in the newspaper’s evolution. Bezos hasn’t spoken in much detail about the subject. (One of his relatively few public comments about his ownership starts at 42:45 to this Business Insider video.) Media references to the Post’s…
On Tuesday, iSIGHT Partners and Invincea disclosed an attack on Forbes.com, assumed to be the work of actors from China conducting an espionage campaign. But the way the disclosure was handled, including a sensational news cycle and required registration for actual details, makes it look as if both vendors are using the incident to increase…
Last September, I went to Chicago for a conference. On the third day of the conference, I slipped away to my friend Max’s apartment on a mission. The mission was to gather together a lot of very smart people who don’t work in news — and ask them to design a new news homepage. By news homepage,…
The best headline templates for maximizing readership can quickly become ubiquitous, over-familiar, and cloying to their own writers. The Atlantic It is my job to read the Internet, and that makes me weird. Most people are not paid to follow, study, and theorize about web journalism like an anthropologist studying gorilla polygyny, but I am….
I was talking to someone who works at one of those half-dozen or so apps that we tend to associate with teenagers: the ones that were built around some novel concept that distracted everyone for a few years while they settled into their roles as slightly different ways to text. He mentioned something, offhand, while…