Mediagazer: Is Twitter writing, or is it speech? Why we need a new paradigm for our social media platforms (Megan Garber/Nieman Journalism Lab)

3:05 AM ET, June 3, 2011

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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:

Abramson to Replace Keller as The Times's Executive Editor — Jill Abramson, a former investigative reporter and Washington bureau chief for The New York Times, will become the paper's executive editor, succeeding Bill Keller, who is stepping down to become a full-time writer for the paper.

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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:

Why Bill Keller Stepped Down As Times Executive Editor And How the Paper's Media Reporters Staged An Intervention Over His Column — Today's announcement that Jill Abramson is succeeding Bill Keller as New York Times executive editor was, in many ways, expected.

Discussion: LA Observed

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

NY Times Editor Bill Keller: The Exit Interview — Bill Keller will have a lot more time for this sort of thing starting in September. Image by Getty Images via @daylife — Bill Keller, the executive editor of The New York Times, caught media watchers off guard today when he announced …

Discussion: New York Magazine

Scott Raab / Esquire:

Exclusive Q&A: Bill Keller on Leaving the Times, Fox & More — New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller announced his resignation this morning, to the surprise of even most of his colleagues. Recently, Esquire writer at large Scott Raab sat down with Keller at Maialino restaurant …

Discussion: Gawker, Poynter and The Atlantic Wire

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Incoming New York Times Editor Ready To ‘Seize The Future’

Discussion: Poynter, Nieman Journalism Lab and MediaPost

Tom McGeveran / Capital New York:
When Jill Abramson was the only grown-up in the Times building

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Grace Wyler / Business Insider:
BREAKING: Jill Abramson Named New Executive Editor Of The New York Times

Discussion: The Wire, FishbowlNY, Boing Boing and Free Press

Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Meet the new boss: Jill Abramson's NYT ascent and its potential impact on the digital side of the Times

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Jill Geisler / Poynter: What Jill Abramson's appointment as NY Times executive editor could mean for women in journalism

Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:
Jill Abramson Replacing Bill Keller as NYT Editor

Discussion: Poynter, FishbowlNY, Guardian, AdAge and National Review

Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:

In Media Res: Tina dips into Graydon's talent pool; Schiller leads digital at NBC — Another new byline at Newsweek: Tina Brown continues her raid on the newsrooms of magazines she used to run. The latest to be poached by the veteran British-born editor is Leslie Bennetts, who is leaving Vanity Fair …

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nbcuniversal.presscentre.com:

VIVIAN SCHILLER JOINS NBC NEWS IN NEW ROLE AS CHIEF DIGITAL OFFICER — New position will oversee the digital strategy for NBC News and MSNBC — Vivian Schiller will be joining NBC News as Chief Digital Officer. The announcement was made today by NBC News President Steve Capus.

Discussion: TVNewser, Mediaite, Poynter, The Atlantic Wire, MediaPost and AllThingsD

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Is Twitter writing, or is it speech? Why we need a new paradigm for our social media platforms — New tools are at their most powerful, Clay Shirky says, once they're ubiquitous enough to become invisible. Twitter may be increasingly pervasive — a Pew study released yesterday shows …

Discussion: Mashable!

Colby Hall / Mediaite:

Exclusive: Glenn Beck's Last Day On Fox News Will Be June 30th — Mediaite has learned that Glenn Beck's last day on Fox News is currently scheduled to be June 30th. Fox News has confirmed this information to Mediaite. — In the past month, ratings for Beck's ratings saw a double digit decline …

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Matthew Lynley / VentureBeat:

Online radio Pandora claims valuation of $1.3B — Online radio station Pandora has priced its shares between $7 and $9 in its upcoming initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) — giving the cloud music company a valuation of nearly $1.3 billion, according …

Discussion: Company Town and CNET News

The Atlantic Wire:

Wait Over: Reporters Have Abandoned DSK's Townhouse — We noted earlier today that the scoops coming from Dominique Strauss-Kahn's TriBeCa townhouse-jail are getting smaller and smaller. The press corps in residence seems to have realized that too and, for the most part …

Discussion: The New Yorker Blog

Cardiff Garcia / FT Alphaville:

“Groupon offers”, or, how to write about the Groupon IPO when you don't really care — 1) Asinine joke about how this IPO isn't the kind of discount you'd find on the Groupon site itself. Shoot yourself. — 2) Discuss: bubble or no bubble? Ponder the existential meaning of being in a “not-a-bubble”.

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Robert Feder / Time Out Chicago:

Power in the Tower: Tribune Co. execs keep jockeying for position — Sure, Tribune Co. may be in its record-breaking third year of bankruptcy with legal fees topping $150 million and no end in sight to its financial turmoil. But that's no reason you can't admire the way their folks still manage …

Discussion: TVSpy and Chicago Tribune

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Disney CEO Bob Iger on Apple, Social Networks and the Cloud — Disney sells some very analog forms of entertainment, like movies, broadcast and cable TV, and theme parks. — But Bob Iger's company has also been willing to experiment with digital outlets: The president and CEO …

Discussion: The Wrap, Electronista, Company Town and The Tech Trade

MediaPost:

Small Newspapers Erect Pay Walls — In more than 300 phone interviews with publishers of daily U.S. newspapers, 46% of publishers of daily newspapers under 25,000 circulation now require payment for at least some of their online content. Among newspapers with greater than 25,000 circulation, 24% now charge.