“Online visionary” Neil Budde to lead startup DailyMe
Posted by Bill Gaffney | April 6th, 2008Yahoo’s former editor-in-chief of news, sports and finance, Neil Budde, has joined the news aggregation startup DailyMe as president and chief product officer.
Budde is more familiar to those in the news industry as the editor and publisher of The Wall Street Journal Online and instrumental in building its pay wall. In late 2004, Budde continued his career with Yahoo.
His departure comes paired with the loss of another Yahoo executive in Ian Rogers, general manager of Yahoo Music, who resigned to head-up music startup Topspin Media as chief executive.
From NeilBudde.com:
“I’m thrilled to be joining the talented DailyMe team because it truly embodies the kind of innovation and customer focus that I’ve long championed and believe is needed to define the future of news consumption and business success in digital media.”
DailyMe is touted by Budde as a more personalized Yahoo News where they will be licensing and aggregating news content that is often available elsewhere. Unlike The Wall Street Journal or Yahoo however, he will be contending with the task of building both the product as well as the audience. Budde has successfully leveraged technology, design and content previously, but never before without a strong starting base.
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