Brick Weekly founding editor Pete Humes and the paper's founding art director have been removed from their posts as part of a rethinking of the 13-month-old publication, Style Weekly reports. "It did not meet expectations, and this is obviously a business decision," says a spokeswoman for the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Brick's parent company. "The paper will morph into something that is more of a life-stage, lifestyle publication."

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"While Google extends its reach to sell ads on sites all over the web, Yahoo is appealing to big-name publishers with a different approach: You sell ads on our portal, we'll sell ads on your sites," AdWeek reports. Partners in the Yahoo network, which so far include WebMD, Forbes.com, Cars.com and Ziff Davis Media, can sell ads on Yahoo sites, and Yahoo can sell ads on partner's sites. "Typical ad network relationships are one way," says Todd Teresi, senior vice president of Yahoo's publisher network. "The open approach is going to become a new paradigm of how partnerships are struck."

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