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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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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 …
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Grace Wyler / Business Insider:
BREAKING: Jill Abramson Named New Executive Editor Of The New York Times — The New York Times will announce at noon today that managing editor Jill Abramson will become the paper's first-ever female executive editor, beginning in September. Bill Keller, the newspaper's current executive editor, is stepping down to return to writing.
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Incoming New York Times Editor Ready To ‘Seize The Future’ — NEW YORK - When publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. recently told Jill Abramson that he wanted her to be the next executive editor of The New York Times, the veteran journalist quickly accepted. “I said it would be the honor of my life,” she recalled.
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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
Meet the new boss: Jill Abramson's NYT ascent and its potential impact on the digital side of the Times
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Tom McGeveran / Capital New York:
When Jill Abramson was the only grown-up in the Times building
When Jill Abramson was the only grown-up in the Times building
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Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:
Jill Abramson Replacing Bill Keller as NYT Editor
Jill Abramson Replacing Bill Keller as NYT Editor
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Poynter, FishbowlNY, AdAge, Guardian 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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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.
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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 …
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
YouTube Now Lets You License Videos Under Creative Commons (Remixers, Rejoice) — If you've ever yearned to mash up your cat video with some C-SPAN footage but couldn't figure out how, today's your lucky day. — Because starting now, YouTube is giving users a choice over how they want to license their content.
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 …
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Mashable!, Pew Internet and The Atlantic Online
Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:
Newspaper sales crisis enters sixth year — Following an unexpectedly sharp decline in advertising demand in the first three months of this year, newspapers now appear to be entering the sixth year of an unprecedented collapse that has vaporized half of their principal revenues since 2006.
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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 …
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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 …
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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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Brenna Ehrlich / Mashable!:
MTV Launches Tumblr As Part of Digital Expansion — MTV has just added another social media tool to its roster in the form of a new Tumblr blog featuring original and reblogged content. — In an ongoing effort to expand its platform into all areas of the digital sphere …
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