Variety: NBC News chairman Andrew Lack has made a key hire in naming Nick Ascheim head of digital for the news division and MSNBC. As SVP of digital, Ascheim will take over responsibilities previously handled by Julian March and Richard Wolffe, who have left the company. Lack emphasized the importance of streamlining NBC News-related digital management especially now that the company has invested in digital news dynamos BuzzFeed and Vox. “Our digital efforts will now be united under one leader.”