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John Harris, left, and Jim VandeHei of Politico. (Jacquelyn Martin/Associated Press) In what can be described only as a cataclysm in Beltway media, CEO Jim VandeHei is leaving Politico, the eight-year-old politics website that shook up Washington journalism, according to sources and reports by Huffington Post and CNNMoney. And in what can be described only…
Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei are leaving Politico, according to sources. Politico is about to lose three of its most powerful and longtime leaders. Jim VandeHei, the co-founder and CEO of Politico; Mike Allen, author of the influential Politico Playbook; and Kim Kingsley, the company’s chief operating officer will all leave the company later this…
Politico CEO Jim VandeHei is expected to leave the company he co-founded later this year in what staffers believe will be a major shake-up, with other top journalists and executives also leaving the news organization later this year. Beyond VandeHei, at least four other high-level departures are expected, according to newsroom sources. Staffers say VandeHei…
Developer Steven Witkoff is holding off on converting Manhattan’s Park Lane Hotel into luxury condominiums — for now. The owners are contemplating a renovation of the 46-story hotel at the foot of Central Park, Witkoff said in an interview. He led a group that acquired the property from the estate of Leona Helmsley for $660…
Theranos chief executive Elizabeth Holmes gestures as she speaks at a technology conference in October (Glenn Chapman/AFP/Getty Images) Theranos, the high-profile Silicon Valley company that promised to revolutionize blood testing, was warned by federal regulators this week that its Newark, Calif. laboratory has “deficient practices” that “pose immediate jeopardy to patient health and safety,” according…
Photo William Chick, who was fired from the Wounded Warrior Project in 2012 after a dispute with his supervisor. He said the charity swiftly fired anyone that leaders considered a “bad cultural fit.” Credit Tamir Kalifa for The New York Times JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — In 2014, after 10 years of rapid growth, the Wounded Warrior…
Just when you think things can’t get sadder and stranger at Twitter…. Last night, news leaked to the New York Times and Re/Code that four major Twitter execs are leaving: Alex Roetter, Kevin Weil, Skip Schipper, and Katie Stanton The original positioning was that the departures were part of a house cleaning. That suggestion, though,…
Twitter Inc. named Leslie Berland chief marketing officer as it undergoes a major overhaul of its top ranks in an effort to reboot growth. Berland, 37, was previously senior vice president of digital partnerships at American Express Co. where she spent the past four years on an ad campaign that included a heavy presence on…
Twitter makes its money by showing ads to its users. But not all of its users: For the past few months, the social media company has stopped displaying ads, or has dramatically reduced the number of ads it displays, to a small group of some of its most prominent and active users. For those people, Twitter is an ad-free, or…
Height – 1536 | Width – 2048 Photo: Buck Ennis Scaffolds are ubiquitous in the city. One day in 2004, workmen arrived at the corner of West 123rd Street and Lenox Avenue in Harlem to erect a sidewalk shed, one of those unsightly steel-and-wooden structures that pop up any time a building is under…