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John Murrell in News on October 18, 2011 at 1:25 pm PT
AOL announced today that Janet Balis is returning to the company as head of sales strategy, marketing and partnerships for AOL Advertising. Balis was SVP for sales development at AOL from 2004 to 2007 and in the interim served as president of Digital Media Strategies and then as executive vice president for media sales and marketing for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia.
Liz Gannes in Social on January 12, 2011 at 9:00 pm PT
Alison “Ali” Rosenthal, a veteran of the Facebook business development team, will leave the company at the end of this week, she told NetworkEffect.
Peter Kafka in Media on December 13, 2010 at 4:55 am PT
Ten former AOLers get new gigs at a radio station chain and start to building. Up first: 30 new local sites plus Taste of Country, which is dedicated to…well, you can guess.
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Voices in News on October 13, 2010 at 3:20 pm PT
Google’s rocky efforts to extend its online advertising prowess into old media hit another big bump with confirmation today that NBC Universal was
pulling out of a two-year-old partnership under which Google brokered ad sales for some of its cable networks. Sources tell Adweek that neither the networks nor the advertisers were bowled over by the service or the results.
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Peter Kafka in Media on September 23, 2010 at 3:00 am PT
Just a “temporary space” where people who work for Twitter out of New York go and…work. That’s the word from Twitter PR to
ReadWriteWeb, which made the mistake of thinking that Twitter had a New York Office because that’s what someone who works for Twitter
wrote on Twitter. Tired? I know. But now that
Twitter is a media company, with a
big-deal ad sales guy and everything, it really might be a good idea to open a New York Office someday. Right?
Peter Kafka in Media on May 5, 2010 at 7:54 am PT
This is how bad things are at Newsweek: Not only has owner Washington Post Co. hired Allen & Company to sell the magazine, but it’s not pretending otherwise.
Peter Kafka in Media on March 26, 2010 at 6:55 am PT
So you used write for a newspaper and now you’re out of work? Odds are, you’re going to have to find something else to do.
But some of you may be able to transform yourselves into one-person news factories, says NewsLabs’ Paul Biggar.
Drake Martinet in News on February 27, 2010 at 2:14 pm PT
If you’re reading this, it’s likely you have come down from your tsunami perch. Grab some soup, put the furniture back on the floor and pull up a chair to catch up with your tech news this week. Better get it in before the aftershocks.
Peter Kafka in Media on February 3, 2010 at 10:41 am PT
If you’re waiting for Apple’s iPad to rescue the magazine business, you may have to wait a very long time indeed. But the present-tense magazine industry–the ink-and-paper version everyone has left for dead–may be limping its way to a recovery.
Peter Kafka in Media on December 3, 2009 at 5:35 am PT
Comcast investors have been upset with the company ever since its plans to acquire control of NBC Universal from GE appeared in September. Now’s the time for the company to start wooing them back (at least publicly).
