Mag world view: Back to a letters section; Alphabet's bilions; 'what makes a community?; Readers are not lists

• The Atlantic is killing its comments in favor of a new Letters section to showcase reader feedback (Nieman Journalism Lab)
• HK$500 million sale of Next Digital magazine business collapses (South China Morning Post)
• Google parent company Alphabet passed £100bn in revenue last year (Press Gazette)
• Bloomberg Media Hires Its First Chief Product Officer (Folio:)
• Pivot to Digital: How Two Legacy Publishers Are Embracing Their Futures (Folio:)
• New Scientist appoints Guardian journalist Emily Wilson as first ever female editor (Press Gazette)
• What Makes a Community? (BuzzMachine)
• Buzzfeed founder Jonah Peretti says Facebook should pay for content on News Feed (Press Gazette)
• "I Like To Feel That Our Readers Aren’t A Mailing List, That They Are An Actual Community." -- William R.Hearst III to Samir Husni (Mr. Magazine)
• Crossref: How Stakeholders Across the Publishing Industry Collaborate (The Scholarly Kitchen)
• How AI is changing advertising (Media Update)