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"Online news visionary" Neil Budde lands at startup DailyMe

Jackson West — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:00:00 EDT

Neil Budde, the man who built the pay wall at the Wall Street Journal before moving to Yahoo to lead up their News, Sports and Finance sites, has landed at news aggregator startup DailyMe — guess that gig at the LA Times didn't pan out. Budde left the Journal during the dot-bomb, only to picked up by Terry Semel in the executive hiring spree that included Lloyd Braun. How does Fort Lauderdale-based DailyMe differentiate itself from aggregators like Budde's old Yahoo News or the Huffington Post? A special application that automatically prints your personalized news at home on a set schedule — which sounds an awful lot like those "news to your fax machine" services from yesteryear.

Ex-Yahoo Neil Budde lands at the Los Angeles Times

Nicholas Carlson — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:47:37 EST

Neil Budde, the founding editor of WSJ.com and former Yahoo News chief has won a new gig at the Los Angeles Times. Despite the woes of print newspapers, trading Jerry Yang as a boss for foulmouthed motorcyclist Sam Zell sounds like a good bet right now.

Yahoo GM not expecting, just parking like she is

Nicholas Carlson — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:40:33 EST

Now we know why Yahoo News general manager Amy Iorio surrounds herself with family at work. She's low on friends. That's sometimes what happens when you make a habit of parking in the spot Yahoo reserves for expectant mothers, as a tipster alleges Iorio did until caught. Iorio's "overly aggressive attitude" also caused two of Scott Moore's well-liked executive assistants to quit. "Its really sad how he can let someone like her take over a role that Neil Budde was in," our tipster writes. "Like the two even compare."

Scott Moore edits Neil Budde out of Yahoo News

Nicholas Carlson — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:15:03 EST

As we previously reported, Neil Budde, the founding editor of WSJ.com recruited to run Yahoo News three years ago, plans to leave the company. This from PaidContent, the same source which had earlier scoffed at the rumor. Reportedly, new Yahoo media chief Scott Moore never made room for Budde in his new organizational chart. What, Scott Moore pushing out a highly respected underling? Never heard that one before.

Scott Moore suffocates his workers

Nicholas Carlson — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 08:09:31 EST

Scott Moore's career is on fire. The already overtaxed executive is taking over Yahoo's media division. His role has expanded to include oversight of music, TV, movies, games, and gossip site OMG. But a former Yahoo consultant worries that Moore's out of his depth. "[Moore] is a news guy," our source tells us. "He's not really a traditional product person. Scott doesn't really understand a lot of what's going on in terms of how things are monetized these days." And when it comes to managing talent, he says, Moore has a habit of sucking the oxygen out of the room.

Our source says "really good talent underneath [Moore] tends to suffer." Deanna Brown, for example, left to run Scripps's interactive division — but only after Moore essentially forced her out. "She launched Food for Yahoo under Scott Moore and was completely stifled. She was a talent that everyone around her thought was probably at Scott's level, but he just didn't let her breathe." For his part, Moore now pooh-poohs topics like food as too small for Yahoo, according to PaidContent.

Interesting. Yesterday, we also heard that Neil Budde, the founding editor of WSJ.com and a star hire for Yahoo three years ago, might be finding Moore's management style a bit stifling and may be on his way out, though PaidContent doubts it. Any Moore stories? Yahoos, want to come up for air? Drop us a line.

Is Neil Budde leaving Yahoo News?

Nicholas Carlson — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:39:38 EST

Neil Budde, the founding editor of WSJ.com recruited to run Yahoo News three years ago, plans to leave the company, a source tells us. The rumor comes as Scott Moore ascends to a new role, adding Yahoo's entertainment sites to his current news and finance gig. Sources tell us Moore, while he has his hands full, is at least aware of Budde's bad news. Not that it comes at a good time. Says one tipster: "To [Moore's] credit he's a very good news guy, but he also had Neil Budde working for him." Can anyone confirm what Budde's up to next — and whom Moore might find to replace him?