Kat Downs Mulder
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SVP & General Manager @Yahoo news and home. I love technology, design and journalism. Proud @washingtonpost, UNC alum. Crafty. Mom.
Joined September 2008
Polls have closed in North Carolina, Ohio and West Virginia. North Carolina is among the largest swing states up for grabs in this election. Follow along for live updates.
yahoo.com
The first state polls close tonight at 6 and 7 p.m. ET, while the final state polls close in Hawaii and most of Alaska at midnight ET.
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Former president Donald Trump was rushed offstage with blood dripping down his face after a shooting that the authorities called an assassination attempt. The alleged shooter used an AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle, a U.S. official said.
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The former president was rushed offstage from a campaign rally in Butler, Pa., on Saturday evening. Trump said he was shot in his upper right ear and his campaign said he was “fine.”
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Artifact, the news app startup from Instagram's cofounders, was purchased by Yahoo earlier this year. The web giant then used some of Artifact's AI smarts to supercharge its own mobile news app.
wired.com
Artifact, the news app startup from Instagram’s cofounders, was purchased by Yahoo earlier this year. The web giant then used some of Artifact’s AI smarts to supercharge its own mobile news app.
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It’s alive. Yahoo+Artifact app launches today. Thanks @kevin and @mikeyk for helping us make it happen. Killer roadmap ahead - so much more we can do here.
Artifact, the news app startup from Instagram's cofounders, was purchased by Yahoo earlier this year. The web giant then used some of Artifact's AI smarts to supercharge its own mobile news app.
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Yahoo is buying Artifact, the AI news app from the Instagram co-founders
theverge.com
Yahoo News is bigger than you’d think — and it’s getting a big dose of AI.
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@washingtonpost "I believe this award is a recognition of our ability to collaborate or willingness to experiment. We response swiftly and push aside ego to respond to breaking news to make our projects and our products better" #OJA23
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As promised, here are Ten New Year’s Resolutions for Editors. They're resolutions you really can keep. Resolution for Editors No. 1: To read every word of a draft before making changes. (Yes, this is hard. But if time permits, a good practice.)
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EXCLUSIVE: On Dec. 20, 2020, a 21-year-old intelligence analyst stumbled upon the blueprint of a plot to storm the Capitol, execute members of Congress and cops to prevent the certification of electoral votes to make Joe Biden the next U.S. president.
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Scoop w/ @LaurenSHirsch: Yahoo has taken a ~25% stake in Taboola as part of a 30-year ads partnership
nytimes.com
Yahoo’s chief executive sees the deal as a long-term bet on digital advertising. The companies estimate that their ad partnership will generate $1 billion annually.
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Went through old photos tonight and WHAT AN A+ GROUP @emmapattiharris @oallenprice @katdowns @petesweigard
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Follow this graphic tonight: Tracking which 2020 election deniers are winning, losing in the midterms
washingtonpost.com
Follow live results where 291 Republican election deniers, who disputed the 2020 election results, are winning or losing their 2022 midterm election races.
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Happy election night, everyone. We’re here to get you all up-to-date on the latest midterms news. We know there's a lot happening tonight, so let us help you stay in the loop. First, tonight’s election results will be found here:
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Socked in the gut with this news. I can't express what an amazing person Neema was and how her fierce brilliance, kindness and thoughtfulness still alters the course of people's lives who were lucky enough to know her. https://t.co/sQc2KIikWV
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She was a founding editor of The Lily and most recently was an editor on the Next Generation audience development team.
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Neema Roshania Patel, a founding editor of The Lily, The Washington Post news site for millennial women, and most recently an editor with the Next Generation audience development team, died Oct. 24 at a hospital in Washington. She was 35.
washingtonpost.com
She was a founding editor of The Lily and most recently was an editor on the Next Generation audience development team.
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We are *so thrilled* to announce that @ShiraOvide is joining @washingtonpost Help Desk team as strategy editor, a new role to expand our mission to help people make sense of the tech in our lives. She’ll help launch, write and edit a newsletter. Shira, welcome to Post Tech!
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The Supreme Court has struck down Roe v. Wade, which for nearly 50 years has protected the right to abortion. Watch our coverage live from the newsroom of The Washington Post.
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Some personal news: I’m stepping into a new role at The Post: Deputy Director, Social, Off-Platform Curation. I’ll be overseeing the social team and a senior editor in our newsroom. I am very excited to get to work.
The Post's @travislylesnews named deputy director, social, off-platform curation https://t.co/j5AW1SE3yx
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Classmates wouldn’t sign his yearbook. So older students stepped in.
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An impromptu swarm of older students filed into the sixth-grade class to sign his yearbook.
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Thrilled to see @eschow take on this exciting new role!
The Post has named @eschow Head of Product Operations. This completes the new leadership team for the news-product-engineering hybrid structure under Post CPO/ME @katdowns which also includes @EriFaith @jessicapgilbert and @coleenolear
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