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2:50 PM ET, April 24, 2013

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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Turbulence at The Times  —  One Monday morning in April, Jill Abramson called Dean Baquet into her office to complain.  The executive editor of The New York Times was upset about the paper's recent news coverage — she felt it wasn't “buzzy” enough, a source there said — and placed blame on Baquet, her managing editor.
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Politico's ‘turbulence’ story about New York Times' Jill Abramson: All wind  —  Dylan Byers' big “Turbulence at The Times” story, about the news organization under Executive Editor Jill Abramson's leadership, has the look and feel of world-beating Politico scoop.
Emily Bell / Guardian:
Jill Abramson and the wholly sexist narrative of the woman in power  —  The New York Times executive editor is apparently stubborn and snappy.  Why must we focus on women's character traits?  —  Happy newsrooms are all alike.  Every unhappy newsroom is unhappy in its own way.
Discussion: @sulliview
Tom McGeveran / Capital New York:
When straight-keeper in chief Jill Abramson gets the tabloid treatment  —  Has Jill Abramson, executive editor of The New York Times, “lost the newsroom”?  —  A story posted last night by Politico's Dylan Byers characterizes Abramson as a woman on the verge of a newsroom breakdown.
Brad Stone / Businessweek:
Here Comes Amazon's Kindle TV Set-Top Box  —  Amazon (AMZN) is making e-readers, tablets and will likely soon introduce a smartphone.  As it works to build all types of connected devices, that leaves a natural next step: a television set-top box.  The e-commerce giant is planning to introduce …
Mat Honan / Wired:
Twitter Now Has a Two-Step Solution  —  Twitter has a working two-step security solution undergoing internal testing before incrementally rolling it out to users, something it hopes to begin doing shortly, Wired has learned.  —  Such a system will drastically reduce the risk of Twitter users having …
George Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Royal Correspondent at ‘The Sun’ to Be Charged in U.K. Bribery Probe  —  The journalist at the tabloid owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. allegedly paid more than $35,000 for news stories from a royal military training academy.  —  LONDON - The chief royal correspondent of The Sun tabloid …
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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:   Report confirms News of the World hackers were let off the hook for years
James Surowiecki / The New Yorker:
The Wise Way to Crowdsource a Manhunt  —  After Reddit's attempt to find the Boston Marathon bombers turned into a major failure (for which Reddit's general manager Erik Martin publicly apologized Monday), the over-all conclusion seems to be that the whole experiment was misguided from the start …
Editors Weblog:
USA Today encourages journalists to pepper reporting with personality  —  Forget journalistic objectivity, USA Today told its editorial team.  The newspaper is asking reporters to pepper their writing with personality and offer unique perspectives to news, Publisher Larry Kramer said.
Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:
Storify launches paid-for option aimed at journalists  —  Journalists will be guaranteed ad-free Storify stories for £5.30 a month  —  Storify has made another move in moving towards a freemium model.  —  Late yesterday the team behind the tool, which has become a favourite …
Discussion: @xdamman and NetNewsCheck Latest
Stuart Elliott / New York Times:
Scripps Networks Is Adding 52 New Series  —  How determined is one of the largest cable television companies, Scripps Networks Interactive, to increase the original programming it offers viewers and advertisers?  For the 2013-14 season, the six channels operated by the company plan to add 52 new series.
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
NYT changes style slightly on ‘illegal immigrant’  —  The New York Times has “come up with more detailed and nuanced stylebook guidelines” on the use of the term “illegal immigrant,” Associate Managing Editor for Standards Philip Corbett tells Poynter in an emailed statement.
Discussion: TheBlaze.com
Marc Tracy / New Republic:
The New ESPN Ombudsman Is One of Its Fiercest Critics  —  Robert Lipsyte talks about working inside the belly of the beast  —  In the same way that, as poet Philip Larkin put it, “Sexual intercourse began in 1963,” Robert Lipsyte invented cynicism about the world of sports.
 
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