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12:30 PM ET, June 3, 2011

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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Why Bill Keller Stepped Down As Times Executive Editor And How the Paper's Staffers 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.  The handoff to Abramson …
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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 …
Kelly McBride / Poynter:
NY Times columnist: 'I cannot believe it didn't leak out'  —  Lisa Belkin, author of the Times' parenting blog, The Motherlode, wasn't in the newsroom Thursday morning for the announcement that Jill Abramson would become the new executive editor of The New York Times.
Online NewsHour:
New York Times' Abramson on Role as First Female Top Editor, Challenges Ahead  —  Jill Abramson was named executive editor of the New York Times Thursday, becoming the first woman to hold the top editorial position at the newspaper of record.  Abramson speaks with Jim Lehrer about the milestone and the future of the news organization.
Discussion: Poynter and The New Yorker Blog
Jill Geisler / Poynter:   What Jill Abramson's appointment as NY Times executive editor could mean for women in journalism
Janko Roettgers / gigaom.com:
Why YouTube Adopting Creative Commons Is a Big Deal  —  YouTube's new Creative Commons remix feature in its video editor.  —  Making legal YouTube mashups just got a whole lot easier.  The site's video editor is now allowing its users to remix existing YouTube videos without violating anyone's copyright.
Nat Worden / Wall Street Journal:
Cable Company Eyes ‘Single Play’  —  Time Warner Cable Inc. Chief Executive Glenn Britt said Wednesday his company has an opportunity to win more broadband-only customers as broadband replaces TV as the cable industry's anchor product.  —  At an investor conference in New York City hosted …
Discussion: MediaPost and Multichannel
New York Post:
Time Inc.'s digital veteran Quittner logs off  —  Josh Quittner, one of the pi oneering digital journalists at Time Inc., is shoving off to do what he has been writing about for most of the past two decades — joining an Internet start-up.  —  Quittner, a 15-year veteran of the nation's largest publisher …
Ellie Behling / eMedia Vitals:
What Twitter's changes mean for media companies  —  Twitter has managed to be in the news even more than usual over the past couple of weeks with a handful of developments big and small.  Content providers should take note of how they can use Twitter's new features, which range from a new Follow button to a new photo-sharing service.
Julie Bosman / New York Times:
In Their Own Words?  Maybe  —  ASPIRING fiction writers, don't take it too hard, but the Kardashian sisters, best known for their skill in cozying up to reality-show cameras, are about to publish their first novel.  —  “As wild as our real lives may seem on TV, just wait to read …
Discussion: FishbowlNY and Media Law Prof Blog
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 …
Alphonso Labs / The Pulse Blog:
Introducing Pulse.me: An Easy Way to Save Stories on Your iPad, iPhone, Android device - or the Web!  —  We know that you don't always have time to read every piece of breaking news the moment you see it, so today we are debuting Pulse.me - an easy way to save stories for reading later.
Discussion: TUAW, The Next Web, MacStories and SAI
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
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
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Exclusive: BBC Reports 10 Million Apps Downloaded Worldwide  —  The iPad has “truly become the fourth screen,” says Daniel Heaf, Digital Director of the BBC Worldwide, in this interview with Beet.TV.  —  He says that session time on the device matches the time spent with traditional media such as periodicals and television.
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
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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Bill Hartzer:
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Discussion: Adweek, SAI, VentureBeat and Betabeat
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Discussion: VentureBeat and Business Wire
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Wall Street Journal:
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