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ABC News Digital is reorganizing its senior leadership, according to an email from senior VP of digital Paul Slavin.

Slavin announced that Jon Dube, VP of ABCNews.com, decided to take one of the buyouts that ABC News offered employees earlier in the year, and will be leaving ABC in July.

As a result, the company has changed its senior leadership to reflect the new structure.

Andrew Morse has been named executive producer of integration and innovation, where he will be charged with working with broadcast producers to develop integration ideas across the television and digital products. Morse was most recently executive prodcuer of “Good Morning America Weekend,” a position which was eliminated when ABC News restructured in April.

Ed O’Keefe has been promtoed to executive producer of ABCNews.com, and will report to Morse. O’Keefe joined the company last August as senior producer for innovation and special projects.

Elizabeth Barrett has been named VP of mobile, broadband and operations for ABC News Digital, reporting to Slavin. She had been an executive director.

Slavin also noted two promotions in the Disney/ABC Digital Media group, led by Albert Cheng. Those promotions are in the email Slavin sent to staffers earlier today, which is after the jump.
ABC News Digital is reorganizing its senior leadership, according to an email from senior VP of digital Paul Slavin.

Slavin announced that Jon Dube, VP of ABCNews.com, decided to take one of the buyouts that ABC News offered employees earlier in the year, and will be leaving ABC in July.

As a result, the company has changed its senior leadership to reflect the new structure.

Andrew Morse has been named executive producer of integration and innovation, where he will be charged with working with broadcast producers to develop integration ideas across the television and digital products. Morse was most recently executive prodcuer of “Good Morning America Weekend,” a position which was eliminated when ABC News restructured in April.

Ed O’Keefe has been promtoed to executive producer of ABCNews.com, and will report to Morse. O’Keefe joined the company last August as senior producer for innovation and special projects.

Elizabeth Barrett has been named VP of mobile, broadband and operations for ABC News Digital, reporting to Slavin. She had been an executive director.

Slavin also noted two promotions in the Disney/ABC Digital Media group, led by Albert Cheng. Those promotions are in the email Slavin sent to staffers earlier today, which is after the jump.

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ABCNews.com has announced a content-sharing collaboration with a new blog that is mostly by and almost entirely for women called Double X. It’s a spinoff of the Slate blog XX Factor.

Says ABCNews.com’s Ed O’Keefe, Senior Producer of Special Projects & Innovation, “Double X hopes to engage women writers and readers in a conversation about news, politics, culture, family, parenting, work and life at large.”

“There’s no Website out there like Double X,” said Meghan O’Rourke, one of three editors who co-founded the site. “We’ll be thoughtful without being earnest, funny without being snarky. We’ll offer a feminist viewpoint without restricting ourselves to any sort of party line. And it will be the kind of conversation men will want to eavesdrop on.”

Really? Try me.

Anyway, here’s how it works: Double X will send their content to ABCNews.com and vice versa.

• FishbowlNY has more on DoubleX…

ABC News veteran producer and off-air reporter Ed O’Keefe has been maed to the new title of senior producer for Innovation and Special Projects for ABC News Digital. O’Keefe. who’s been with ABC since 2000, worked most recently as senior political editor for ABCNEWS.com’s election coverage.

As head of the special projects team, he will work to integrate the Web and television, “innovating creative products and technologies to build the prominence and reach of ABCNEWS.com,” says the press release, which is after the jump.

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