Cette étonnante propriété a été conçue par Pitsou Kedem Architects dans le quartier de Savyon, 20 km à l’est du centre de Tel Aviv. Le principal volume du bâtiment est composé d’une coque en béton accueillant une façade en métal quadrillé inondant l’espace d’un damier d’ombre et de lumière. À découvrir.
Katerina Plotnikova est une photographe basé à Moscou dont nous vous avions déjà parlé auparavant. Aujourd’hui, l’artiste revient avec une série de clichés toujours basée sur le même principe : un humain, un animal et un portrait pour témoigner de leur complicité.
Après sa série Word As Image, l’artiste Ji Lee s’est mis à jouer avec la typographie des titres de films nommés aux Oscars 2015 en ajoutant des formes symboliques et pertinentes aux lettres : on voit le M servant d’ailes au A dans « Birdman », le R transformé en sniper tenu par un I dans « American Sniper », le P et le I formant une baguette et une cymbale pour « Whiplash ».
Competition: Dezeen is giving 40 readers a code to fast-track designs created for Kram/Weisshaar’s Robochop installation, which allows users to remotely control a robotic arm that shapes cubes of foam into furniture (+ movie).
Stockholm-based Reed Kram and Munich designer Clemens Weisshaar recoded four robotic arms – more commonly used for applications such as car manufacturing – so they can be controlled remotely to create unique shapes within a pop-up space.
“This is very advanced robotics,” Weisshaar told Dezeen. “You’d think that a robot can do literally anything but the reality is most robots do one movement and that’s it, so there is an element of liberation also on the mechanical side.”
Until 20 March, anyone can access an app designed by Kram/Weisshaar. The interface allows participants to write a series of instructions for one of the robots to cut chunks away from the foam cube with a hot wire.
Weisshaar suggested that participants can create “stools, pedestals, side tables, lamp shades, sculptural objects”, with the size of the 40-centimetre cube the only limiting factor.
The codes will fast-track winners’ designs through the queue on the cloud system, where the files are stored in preparation. Two thousand of the most inventive designs will then be created by the robots in Hanover during the CeBIT IT fair from 14 to 20 March.
Each user will be asked for their shipping details via email once their designs are submitted, though production is not guaranteed for everyone.
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Triangular facets give a folded appearance to the bare concrete facade of this house in Argentina by local architect Nicolás Campodonico (+ movie).
Named Casa T&G, the two-storey home is located in the centre of Rosario – a city in the Santa Fe district of Argentina.
Nicolás Campodonico conceived the house as a concrete volume sandwiched between two courtyards. The first of these is screened from the road by a faceted concrete facade, while a glazed wall flanks a second one at the rear.
A combination of prefabricated and cast in-situ concrete was used to create the opaque T-shape, designed to screen the private interior spaces from the busy street.
Pedestrian and vehicle entrances are separated by the down-stem of the T, which appears to have been folded diagonally along its centre to give different emphasis to each.
“Once inside, the space sequence – covered-opened-covered-closed-covered-opened – and the different atmospheres created by light and materials, propose a tour,” explained Campodonico.
“This variety of sections provides spaces with different dimensions and also various light entrances that liven them up and put them in tension,” he added.
Black metal gates with diagonal grillwork cover both entrances, leading through to a paved and covered parking space that transitions into the gravelled courtyard. Here, two slanted walls create a funnel-shaped corridor towards the living spaces, and stepping stones mark out a pathway across the gravel.
These white walls extend into the house, flanking a kitchen to one side, and a bathroom and bedroom to the other. Clerestory windows bridge the gap between the top of the short angled walls and the concrete ceiling slab.
A large living room with polished concrete floors, white walls and exposed concrete ceiling slabs occupies the rest of the ground floor. A glazed wall at the back of the space has wide sliding doors that open onto a terrace and a garden beyond.
A thick strip of concrete, set just slightly lower than the internal ceiling height, spans the boundary walls to provide a canopy for the terrace.
The gap between the two slab heights is filled by a slender strip of glass, matching the height of the clerestory windows of the bedroom and kitchen.
Wooden stairs lead from a well by the kitchen to a bedroom and bathroom with matching wooden floors on the upper level.
Floor-to-ceiling windows on this floor face out onto onto the gravelled rooftop of the garage, and over the concrete parapet of the facade to the street beyond.
An oblong section of grey concrete extends from one side of the upper storey and rests on top of the facade, creating a partial screen from neighbouring houses.
Photography is by Martin Lavayen.
Project credits:
Architect: Nicolas Campodonico
Collaborators: Martin Lavayen, Tomas Balparda, Pablo Taberna, Virginia Theilig, Soledad Cugno
Engineer: Carlos Geremía
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News: the UK’s House of Lords has called for stricter rules on drone management, but says that the production of unmanned aerial vehicles in the European Union could create 150,000 jobs.
In a report issued today, the House of Lords – the UK Parliament’s second chamber – called for the creation of an online database for tracking and managing drone operations across the EU.
It also urged Europe to lead the way in drone manufacturing, stating that the production of the vehicles could potentially create of 150,000 jobs by 2050.
Related story: Five useful ideas from the World Cup of Drones
The Civilian Use of Drones in the EU report – a response to the European Commission’s proposal for drones – said that trust in the use of drones from members of the public was needed for the sector to fulfil its potential.
“We need to find ways to manage and keep track of drone traffic,” said Detta O’Cathain, chair of the House of Lords EU sub committee that commissioned the report.
“That is why a key recommendation is that drone flights must be traceable, effectively through an online database, which the general public could access via an app. We need to use technology creatively, not just to manage the skies, but to help police them as well.”
The proposed online database would be used by both commercial and leisure operators, who could register their drones using an app.
The report also suggested widening the application of geo-fencing technology, which limits flights over high-risk sites by creating virtual barriers with software built into the drones.
The need for guidance on enforcing existing safety rules and shared manufacturing standards across the EU was also highlighted.
“The growth in civilian drone use has been astonishing and they are taking to the skies faster than anyone could have predicted,” said O’Cathain. “We have a huge opportunity to make Europe a world leader in drone technology.”
“But there’s also a risk — public understanding of how to use drones safely may not keep pace with people’s appetite to fly them,” she added. “It would just take one disastrous accident to destroy public confidence and set the whole industry back.”
Drones are currently used for applications such as photography, filming and surveying. Various developments suggest they will soon be performing tasks including cargo shipping and search and rescue.
However, the vehicles have repeatedly made the headlines over the past few months for issues surrounding safety and privacy. Most recently, unmanned aerial vehicles with unidentifiable operators have been spotted multiple times over Paris.
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This is the fourth of our ten Tech Specs interviews. Previously, we talked to Ladies & Gentlemen Studio.
Name: Abe Burmeister
Job title: Cofounder of the Brooklyn-based clothing company Outlier
Background: Fresh out of school, I started an animation company with a couple friends and got involved in some early web animation stuff. I parlayed that into a not-particularly-successful TV animation period—that lasted about four years. Then I started doing freelance web and graphic design, and then I moved more into interface design, working with a lot of financial companies. And then one day about six years ago I couldn’t find particular pieces of clothing that I wanted, and all of a sudden I had a clothing company.
Computer setup: I have a standing desk with a basic, large-screen iMac. And I’m a devoted Wacom user. I’ve been using Wacom tablets since the turn of the century, and now I basically can’t touch a mouse—I can’t stand to use one for more than about ten minutes. I’ve had situations where I’ve forgotten to bring my Wacom tablet to a freelance gig, and I’ll literally run out and buy another one.
I don’t actually use the Wacom to draw that much, I just use it as a mouse substitute—there’s a mouse mode and a pen mode, and my guess from talking to other Wacom users is that 80 to 90 percent of them use it in pen mode. I’m actually the only person I’ve ever met that uses it almost exclusively in mouse mode.
In any case, I actually find that I don’t use the desktop computer or even my desk that much. Basically, what happened is that I created a standing desk for myself, which is great, except I started to find that I would just sit on the couch with my iPad Mini instead. So now I spend more computer time sitting on the couch doing stuff on the iPad than I do standing at the computer working.
How much of your workday do you spend in front of the computer? Probably about half, maybe less. I’d say I use the desktop about 20 percent of the day and the iPad or iPhone for another 30 percent. The other half of the time I’m either walking around and involved in really physical stuff, or I’m in meetings.
Burmeister’s work couch
Abe BurmeisterMost used software: I’ve spent the last year with the philosophy of doing everything possible to minimize the amount of time that I’m in e-mail. And so I use Slack a lot, which has really helped—we were in the Slack Beta testing period and fell in love with it, and now almost all of the company’s internal communications are in Slack rather than e-mail.
The key thing about Slack is that it defaults your communications to public, so it sort of inverts e-mail. You’re posting something that everyone can see, so it really opens up the communication among a group, because everyone, if they want to, can read what’s happening. But it’s designed in such a way that you don’t feel some huge pressure to read every thread or be on top of everything.
When I’m on the iPad, I work a lot in a program called iA Writer. I find that a lot of my work now actually involves writing—a lot of what I do is clarifying the ideas behind designs, explaining why things need to exist, what we’re trying to accomplish. And then after those things are built, I’m trying to clarify what it is that we actually created, and how we can best communicate that to the world.
For writing, I find that the iPad Mini form factor is really transformative. It’s my favorite mode of writing out of anything. I thumb-type in portrait mode—it’s not quite as fast as touch-typing, but it’s fast enough and very intimate. I feel like I can have a really good relationship with the words.
And then when I’m on the desktop, I work a lot in Illustrator—that’s my go-to program when I have to do more traditional design work. It’s probably 80 percent Illustrator and 20 percent Photoshop.
Software that you thought you’d use more often than you do: I guess I had high hopes for doing sketching stuff on the iPad, and I went through a lot of different pieces of software and was pretty frustrated with all of them. I’m almost like a native Illustrator thinker. And while there are some great drawing programs for the iPad, nothing lets me manipulate objects in the way that Illustrator does.
The New OGs are an updated version of the original Outlier garment—a durable bike-to-work pant that evolved into a full-fledged clothing line.
Phone: iPhone 6
Favorite apps: Besides iA Writer, I love this calculator app called Soulver.
Apps that are actually useful for your work: I use Numbers quite a bit. I wake up and do ten minutes of very basic business stuff in bed every morning—just updating spreadsheets and making sure that I pay everybody.
Other than that, there’s a conversion app that I use a lot. There are a couple industries in the world, and clothing is one of them, where you’re just constantly converting measurements. So I find that really useful.
Other devices: I’ve been playing around with a NODE—it’s a little Bluetooth sensor device, and you can plug a bunch of different sensors onto it. In particular, I’ve been trying to work with this color sensor they have, called NODE+chroma. We’re hoping it could be useful for matching colors and comparing things, but it hasn’t gotten past toy status yet.
Other machinery/tools in your workspace: We use a digital microscope sometimes, to look at fabrics and get a sense, on a literally microscopic level, of what’s going on with the materials that we’re working with.
The Ultrahigh Duffle. In addition to its signature pants, Outlier now makes shirts, outerwear, accessories and a small collection of womenswear.Tools or software you’re thinking of purchasing: There’s a humongous one, which is that we could really use an ERP system, which stands for Enterprise Resource Planning. It’s a software platform that allows you to manage production down to a very material level—it’s designed to tell you, for instance, how many screws go into a car, and how many of those you have in stock, and how long it takes for you to make them, and when you need to reorder them, and all of that kind of stuff. That’s something we’ve been putting off buying for a long time. We know it would help make everything work better, but it’s also a massive investment of time and money to get it going. Even to just pick which one to go with and then install it and get it going and working across the entire team is a huge task.
How has new technology changed your job in the last 5–10 years? I can do all the stuff today on my couch, which is crazy. That’s obviously the mega one. I spent a decade working only on a laptop, but then when the iPad came out, I used that as a way to do the opposite—to have a desktop with as big a screen as possible, and then when I travel, get rid of the laptop and just use the iPad. I’ve been doing that since a month or two after the first iPad came out. The only thing I miss is Illustrator—oh, and fonts. There’s no good way to do fonts on an iPad; it’s really frustrating.
When it comes to new tech, are you a Luddite, an early adopter or somewhere in between? I’d say I’m a skeptical early adopter. I’ll never buy a new device the day it comes out, but I’ll wait for the lines to die down and then I’ll get it. I can get swept up in the hype a little bit, but I’m never like, “Wow, this is the new tech that’s going to change everything.” I’m very cautious about what the ramifications of a new tool might be.
Do you outsource any of your tech tasks? For the most part, we work in physical form—so when we’re designing stuff, we’re making physical patterns and drawing on paper and cut-outs. Then we use third-party services to digitize the patterns. They also do what’s called marking grading. So the pattern is one size and they transform it to your whole size range—that’s all done digitally. In addition, there’s laying out all of the pieces in the most optimal way for the fabric to get cut, so you’re not wasting fabric. There are specialist companies that do all of this; it’s the kind of thing that only exists in major garment districts, like in New York and LA.
What are your biggest tech gripes? Basically, I would kill for a working supplement of Illustrator on an iPad—that would change everything for me.
Also, I really want Apple to do a stylus, which I know Steve Jobs was utterly opposed to. But I buy all the new styluses for the iPad and none of them are good enough; they need to be done in a very Apple way, integrated very tightly with the software and hardware.
Basically, I would kill for a working supplement of Illustrator on an iPad—that would change everything for me.
What do you wish software could do that it can’t now? I’m careful about what I wish for with software, because I’m worried it will bite me in the ass.
Finally, we’ve all had instances of software crashing at the worst possible moment, or experienced similar stomach-churning tech malfunctions. Can you tell us about your most memorable tech-related disaster? Back in 2001, when I was doing mostly animation, my partners were in San Francisco and I was in New York. So I was going back and forth all the time, and I had this realization that I could do basically all my work on a laptop and a cell phone. I was having some housing troubles at the time, and I decided that I was just going to get rid of everything I owned except for a carry-on bag with my laptop and my cell, and then I could work anywhere—I could spend a couple weeks in San Francisco, and then I could go somewhere else, and then back to New York.
So I did this. I sold all my records and most of my clothes and all of my books, and I literally reduced my life down to a carry-on bag. Besides my laptop and cell phone, the one other piece of tech that was important to this equation was a thing called a Ricochet. This was an early broadband wireless company, and the device was amazing because it worked in, like, a dozen cities, it was probably the equivalent of 4G service today, and it was actually synchronous, so it had a faster up time than maybe even my landline connection right now. Ricochet had raised over a billion dollars and they had maybe 50,000 users. And, literally, two days after I started this plan with just my carry-on bag, Ricochet went out of business. Shut down completely.
And I remember that very night I had to upload some important files for work. I was housesitting at a friend’s place in New York, and I couldn’t get on her dial-up connection, and it was basically like the dawn of WiFi—there were literally three publicly accessible WiFi spots in the entire city. One of them was run by a professor at NYU, so I ended up literally sitting in Washington Square Park—which was still filled with drug dealers at the time—at midnight sucking on this tiny little WiFi connection. It was the only way I could get the files to my client at the time, and that’s when I was like, “OK, this is going to be kind of hard.” I actually stuck with the carry-on life for four years, but it was a tough start.
If you’re having trouble getting work done — because you procrastinate, because you lose focus, or because of your perfectionistic tendencies — a time blocking approach to managing your time might help. The Pomodoro Technique, developed back in the 1980s by Francesco Cirillo, is the best-known approach but certainly not the only one.
The Pomodoro Technique has you work on a specific task for a 25-minute block, called a Pomodoro, with no interruptions. You set a timer to let you know when each Pomodoro is done. After each Pomodoro, you put a check mark on your log sheet and take a 5-minute break. (You also note how many times you were tempted to break the Pomodoro.) After four Pomodoros, you take a longer break, around 20-30 minutes.
The 5-minute breaks are not meant for anything requiring a lot of brainpower. Getting up and walking around is recommended. You could also do desk exercises or start a load of laundry (if you work at home). The idea is to give your mind a rest.
One thing I really like about this technique is how it gets you to understand how long a task takes, which is very helpful for anything you do repeatedly. Is something a one-Pomodoro task, a two-Pomodoro task, etc.? You may also choose to limit yourself, only allowing a specific number of Pomodoros to complete a task, and thus keeping perfectionistic tendencies at bay.
Fans note that this technique helps them get going on a dreaded task, since deciding to do just one Pomodoro isn’t so intimidating. It helps them stay focused, since they know that doing something like checking social media is off the table until the Pomodoro is done.
For those working in teams that require a lot of interaction, Pomodoros can be a problem unless everyone starts in unison. If they don’t, team members may never be free at the same time to have discussions. As Ben Northrup wrote, what’s needed in this situation is a “shared Pomodoro.” His project team solved this problem by having two shared Power Hours per day, when everyone agreed to do focused work.
Julia Gifford looked at the data in a time-tracking and productivity app and found that the most productive 10 percent of users worked on average for 52 minutes at a time, and then took a 17-minute break before getting back to work. So if you like the idea of Pomodoros, you may want to play with the times and see what works best for you.
As Tony Schwartz noted in The New York Times, a study of elite performers (musicians, athletes, chess players, etc.) found they practiced in uninterrupted sessions of no more than 90 minutes. They took breaks between these sessions, and seldom worked for more than four and a half hours every day.
Schwartz said he changed his own writing practice to work in three uninterrupted 90-minute sessions. He found that he finished writing his books in less than half the time he took for his previous books, when he worked for 10 hours a day.
While many people can’t work for just four and a half hours each day, this approach may work for those who have more control of their time, especially those who are focusing on building their skills.
Do you use any time blocking technique? If so, please add a comment to let us know what you do and how it’s worked for you.
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Andrew Lack Steps Down From Government Agency, Signaling NBC News Return (THR / The Live Feed)
Andrew Lack on Wednesday announced that he will step down as director and CEO of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, the government agency he has headed only since January. Deadline NBCUniversal was wrapping up talks Tuesday to bring back Lack as news chief in hopes of restoring the division’s stature. Variety He is expected to take the reins of a unit that comprises NBC News, MSNBC and CNBC, according to people familiar with the matter. Pat Fili-Krushel, a veteran media-industry executive who has held top roles at Time Warner and Walt Disney and is currently chairman of NBCUniversal News Group, is expected to take another role within the company. NBC News president Deborah Turness is widely expected to stay in her current role, according to one of these people. Politico / Dylan Byers on Media In addition to signaling a Brian Williams comeback, some sources said, a Lack chairmanship would shore up support for Matt Lauer at NBC’s Today show and could even lead to Katie Couric’s return to NBC News. (Couric, now at Yahoo! News, was at NBC from 1989 to 2006.) Poynter / MediaWire Lack joined the Broadcasting Board of Governors from his position as chairman of Bloomberg Media Group. Before joining Bloomberg, Lack was chief executive officer of Sony Music Entertainment, Inc. and chief operating officer and president of NBC Universal, Inc., according to his Bloomberg executive profile.
HBO in Talks With Apple to Be Launch Partner for Coming Web Service ‘HBO Now’ (IBTimes)
HBO is in talks with Apple to make Apple TV one of the launch partners for its highly anticipated streaming service when it debuts next month. HBO and streaming partner Major League Baseball Advanced Media are working to have the standalone service, called “HBO Now,” ready to launch in April in conjunction with the premiere of the fifth season of Game of Thrones, according to sources familiar with their plans. Mashable The HBO Now moniker would differ from HBO Go, the company’s current online streaming service that requires users have a cable and HBO subscription. THR HBO chairman and CEO Richard Plepler announced plans for an online streaming service in October last year and said the company was planning a 2015 launch. HBO has tested a similar service in Finland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark with initial success, he said at the time. HBO declined to address the details in the report. “We know there’s great anticipation around our standalone streaming service. And when we have details to share, we will do so,” a statement from the company read. Variety The pricing of the service is widely expected to be $15 per month.
Tribune Publishing Company Sees Q4 Profit Fall Short (HuffPost / AP)
Tribune Publishing Co. on Wednesday reported net income of $15.5 million in its fourth quarter. On a per-share basis, the Chicago-based company said it had net income of 60 cents. The newspaper publisher posted revenue of $457.5 million in the period. Capital New York Tribune faces an uphill battle to turn around advertising revenues, which were down 10.4 percent, to $266 million out of $457 million in total revenues, during the fourth quarter of 2014, Tribune’s second as a standalone publishing company. The fourth quarter results, released Wednesday, also showed net income fall to $15 million from $33 million during the same three-month period a year earlier. Digital advertising revenue increased a modest 4 percent during the full year. Chief executive Jack Griffin on Wednesday cited “accretive acquisitions” as one of several key pillars in Tribune’s efforts to become what he called a “fully diversified media and marketing company.” Poynter / MediaWire Scripps, in its next-to-last quarter before the spin was buoyed by strong political advertising and retransmission revenues at its TV stations. But revenues in the newspaper division were down 7.9 percent compared to the fourth quarter of 2013. Advertising and marketing service revenue was down 9.7 percent and national advertising by nearly half for the quarter.
Instagram Launches Carousel Ads (SocialTimes)
Similar to Facebook’s multi-product ads, advertisers can now showcase multiple photos at once in a sponsored Instagram post. Adweek At the end of the carousel, users have options to click on additional content or visit a website to learn more. Until now, brands have mostly used the app as billboard space to flash ads as users scroll by. The carousel allows for sequential storytelling, developing a narrative over the course of multiple images. The carousel will only be offered on sponsored posts, not to everyday users or non-paying brands. Mashable Instagram is introducing the new format on a limited basis. The ads will show up in users’ feeds “in coming weeks,” the company said. A rep declined to say which advertisers are using the new format.
ITV 2014 Earnings Rise, Production Arm Continues to Grow (THR)
U.K. TV giant ITV on Wednesday reported improved financials for the full year 2014. The company, which airs hit drama Downton Abbey and such shows as The X Factor on its flagship network, reported higher results for its TV production business and its strongest full-year advertising growth in years, as it had predicted it would. Deadline Pre-tax profit was up 23 percent to £712 million ($1.09 billion), beating analyst estimates. There was a 6 percent hike in net advertising revenue to £1.63 billion and expectation is that the trend will continue with an 11 percent jump in the first quarter of 2015. The production division, ITV Studios, saw 9 percent revenue growth to £933 million and a 22 percent increase in profits to £162 million. Variety ITV’s five-year “transformation plan,” which was put in place in August 2010 and renewed in July 2014, established several strategic priorities. These were to maximize audience and revenue share from its free-to-air broadcast and VOD business; to grow its international content business and to build a global pay and distribution business.
BBC Rape Documentary Causes Uproar in India (Deadline)
India’s Daughter, a hard-hitting BBC documentary about the brutal gang rape of a young woman in India that generated global headlines in 2012, is causing a storm of controversy in India. THR The film has been banned from Indian screens by local authorities. The documentary — due for airing on Sunday, International Women’s Day, on Britain’s BBC Four and channels in seven other countries, including India’s NDTV — is about the fatal gang-rape of a young woman on a New Delhi bus in 2012. NYT India’s home minister, Rajnath Singh, told Parliament on Wednesday that the Indian government would “not allow any organization to leverage such an incident and use it for commercial purpose.” The documentary features an interview with Mukesh Singh, now on death row for his role in the crime, who tried to justify the brutal attack by saying “a decent girl won’t roam around at 9 o’clock at night.” Excerpts from the interview were released on Tuesday as part of an advance publicity campaign.
Former White House Staffer Michael D. Gottlieb Joins National Journal (FishbowlDC)
Michael D. Gottlieb is joining National Journal, a division of Atlantic media, as executive director of the Policy Brands Roundtable, announced NJ Group CEO Tim Hartman Wednesday morning. Politico / Dylan Byers on Media Gottlieb, who has worked for every branch of federal government and is a captain in the U.S. Air Force, is married to former NPR White House correspondent Ari Shapiro, now the network’s international correspondent. He starts with National Journal in April.
AMC, IFC, EPIX Go Live on Sling TV (GigaOM)
Don Draper, meet Sling TV: The recently launched $20-per-month online TV subscription service started to carry AMC and IFC Wednesday with no change in price, which means that Sling TV subscribers can now tune in live for episodes of shows like The Walking Dead and Mad Men. Deadline Meanwhile, subscribers willing to pay an additional $5 a month can watch programming from Sling’s new “Hollywood Extra” add-on pack which consists of EPIX, EPIX 2, EPIX 3, EPIX Drive-In and Sundance TV.
Robots Are About to Write Your Sports Coverage (HuffPost)
The Associated Press is once again teaming up with technology company Automated Insights to bring its “robot” journalism to NCAA college sports, AI announced Wednesday. IBTimes Division I baseball games will be first, followed by recaps of Division I women’s basketball, Division II and III football, and Division II and III men’s basketball over the course of the next 20 months.
CNN Digital Team Announces Promotions (TVNewser)
CNN Digital editorial director Manuel Perez has announced eight promotions among his staff on the news desk and enterprise teams. This comes after Carl Lavin was promoted to editorial director, news and homepage programming just last week.
People en Español Names Online Exec Editor (FishbowlNY)
People en Español has tapped Charo Henriquez as executive editor of peopleenespanol.com. Henriquez comes to the magazine from GFR Media, a media company in Puerto Rico.
Fuse Network Expands Beyond Music in 2015 (THR / The Live Feed)
Music cable network Fuse is rebranding this fall. The network will expand beyond music in an effort to draw in a more diverse audience, it was announced Wednesday by parent company Fuse Media, Inc.
Providence Journal Denies Accusations of Plagiarism (Poynter / MediaWire)
The Providence Journal has denied allegations made by a local news site that it cribbed language from area TV station WPRI, saying the paper has a news partnership that allows it to share content with the station.
AP Considering Legal Action for Clinton Docs (Politico / Dylan Byers on Media)
The Associated Press is considering legal action for extremely long delays on its Freedom of Information Act requests for records related to Hillary Clinton’s tenure at the Department of State.
Jeff Lucas Promoted to Run Viacom Ad Sales Amid Company Shake-up (WSJ / CMO Today)
The executive shake-up at Viacom continues: the media company has tapped advertising executive Jeff Lucas to lead a consolidated ad sales unit, people familiar with the matter say.
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