@katdowns

SVP & General Manager @Yahoo news and home. I love technology, design and journalism. Proud @washingtonpost, UNC alum. Crafty. Mom.

Joined September 2008
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Variety
@VarietyJan 29
'Candy Crush' Launches New Daily Puzzle Game 'Crushable' for Yahoo With Ad Starring Frankie Muniz (EXCLUSIVE) variety.com/2026/gaming/news…

‘Candy Crush’ Launches New Daily Puzzle Game ‘Crushable’ for Yahoo With Ad Starring Frankie Muniz...

"Candy Crush" is expanding with the launch of "Candy Crush Crushable," a new daily puzzle game that will be available exclusively on Yahoo Games.

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Kerry Flynn 🐶@kerrymflynnJan 27
News: @Yahoo is joining the next era of search with Yahoo Scout, a new AI answer engine Details on @axios: axios.com/2026/01/27/yahoo-s…

Yahoo launches AI answer engine

Scout is on the Yahoo Search app and integrates across Mail, News, Finance and Sports.

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Jim Lanzone
@jlanzoneJan 27
Replying to @jlanzone @efeng
Great to be back in the search game, too. I definitely missed it. searchengineland.com/yahoo-s…

Yahoo debuts Scout, an AI search and companion experience

Yahoo Scout is Yahoo's come back to search, using AI, its massive network and data to give you a more fun AI search experience.

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The Verge
@vergeJan 27
Yahoo Scout looks like a more web-friendly take on AI search theverge.com/ai-artificial-i…

Yahoo Scout looks like a more web-friendly take on AI search

Imagine if ChatGPT and Perplexity cared more about the web.

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Yahoo News
@YahooNews6 Nov 2024
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. yhoo.it/3YRgnUh

Election Day voting: Poll closing times tonight by state — plus key swing states to watch

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. wapo.st/4fdlioO

Trump rally shooting was assassination attempt on ex-president, FBI says

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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WIRED
@WIRED13 Jun 2024
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.trib.al/n2HcUsX

Artifact’s DNA Lives on in Yahoo’s Revamped AI-Powered News App

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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Jim Lanzone
@jlanzone13 Jun 2024
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.
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@WIRED13 Jun 2024
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.trib.al/n2HcUsX

Artifact’s DNA Lives on in Yahoo’s Revamped AI-Powered News App

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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Axios
@axios14 May 2024
.@Yahoo CEO @jlanzone on the decision to buy news app Artifact: #AxiosBFD
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The Verge
@verge2 Apr 2024
Yahoo is buying Artifact, the AI news app from the Instagram co-founders trib.al/wVDmMt8

Yahoo is buying Artifact, the AI news app from the Instagram co-founders

Yahoo News is bigger than you’d think — and it’s getting a big dose of AI.

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Online News Association@ONA27 Aug 2023
Replying to @ONA @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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Steve Padilla@StevePadilla230 Dec 2022
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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Yahoo News
@YahooNews13 Dec 2022
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. yhoo.it/3j3eWzt
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Ben Mullin@BenMullin28 Nov 2022
Scoop w/ @LaurenSHirsch: Yahoo has taken a ~25% stake in Taboola as part of a 30-year ads partnership nytimes.com/2022/11/28/busin…

Yahoo Takes Minority Stake in Ad Network Taboola (Published 2022)

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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Carla Correa@pinkgrammar14 Nov 2022
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/politics/…

Tracking which 2020 election deniers are winning, losing in the midterms

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: washingtonpost.com/elections…
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Elite Truong@elitetruong25 Oct 2022
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. washingtonpost.com/obituarie…

Neema Roshania Patel, Post editor who cultivated younger audiences, dies at 35

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/obituarie…

Neema Roshania Patel, Post editor who cultivated younger audiences, dies at 35

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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