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Two big names in digital news move on

LINK: storify.com ➚ | Posted by: Joshua Benton | January 25, 2013

In New York, it’s Jim Roberts, a.k.a. @nytjim, who is taking a buyout from The New York Times. And across the pond, it’s Wolfgang Blau, the top digital editor of Zeit, who is moving on to The Guardian. Both inspired rapturous Storifys (Storifies?) from colleagues: Here’s Jim’s and here’s Wolfgang’s (mostly in German, as you’d expect).

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