Amazon has a new head of corporate affairs. Politico is reporting that President Barack Obama’s former White House press secretary Jay Carney will be a senior vice president at Amazon, reporting… Read more »
The FCC has scheduled a February 26 vote on net neutrality, touching off a final flurry of debate over how the agency should oversee the internet. The home stretch will be dominated by politics,… Read more »
David Plouffe, Obama’s former campaign manager, will be joining Uber to run communications and policy. It’s a big growing moment for the transportation company, as it looks to disrupt more markets… Read more »
Washington Post editor-in-chief Marty Baron defended his decision not to finance Ezra Klein’s vision for a news Wikipedia, saying it didn’t make financial sense. He was probably right — but the… Read more »
Incubating new digital news brands is exactly what traditional news organizations should be doing right now. But they need to treat them as genuine startups, with the expectation that they will… Read more »
Politico is launching a free, bi-monthly print magazine, as well as a new “Politico Magazine” section of its website that will be updated daily. The editor, Susan Glasser, was formerly editor… Read more »
Jim Roberts, a former New York Times editor and Reuters executive, is joining Mashable as executive editor, and says he wants to expand the kinds of journalism the site does while… Read more »
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-09/politico-founder-sees-1-000-a-year-fee-for-capital-n-y-.html A subscription to a premium version of Capital New York is likely to cost $99 a month or $1,000 a year, Politico cofounder and executive editor Jim VandeHei told Bloomberg… Read more »
Politico’s publisher has acquired the news site Capital New York, which covers New York politics, media and culture. And it looks as if a subscription product is on the way. Read more »