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Ken Auletta / News Desk:
In 2011, Abramson's salary went from $475k to $503k, then $525k after protest; Keller's, $559k — Jill Abramson and the Times: What Went Wrong? — In the gossipy world of New York journalism, the firing of Jill Abramson from her position as the executive editor of the Times provoked …
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Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
What Might Leadership Change Mean for Times Readers? — Secrets don't normally last long at newspapers. But this was different: Most of the hundreds who gathered in the Times newsroom Wednesday afternoon were stunned by Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr.'s announcement that Jill Abramson had been fired.
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Sulzberger: ‘Not true’ that Abramson's compensation package was less than Keller's — New York Times publisher and Times Company chairman Arthutr Sulzberger Jr. hit back Thursday at a report the previous day suggesting part of the reason he fired executive editor Jill Abramson …
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Amanda Hess / Slate:
Jill Abramson was everything to young women at the New York Times. — “Every executive editor stands on the shoulders of others,” Jill Abramson told the New York Times newsroom when she was named the newspaper's executive editor in September 2011. But not all shoulders are the same.
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Rebecca Traister / The New Republic:
Jill Abramson's Firing Was Singularly Humiliating — Trying to explain a singularly humiliating firing — So far, accounts of why Jill Abramson, the first woman executive editor of The New York Times, was abruptly fired on Wednesday, don't leave us with a firm sense of what happened.
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New York Times:
Times Seeks to Reassure Its Staff After Abramson's Ouster — A day after The New York Times Company announced that it had dismissed Jill Abramson, its first female executive editor, top editors and the publisher moved to reassure staff members and rebut news media reports that her removal …
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Rachel Sklar / Medium:
Abramson was treated shockingly badly, but still walks away with power and a legacy
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Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:
NYT mishandles firing of executive editor, forces own reporters to rely on anonymous sources
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Richard Prince / Quartz:
Yes, it's a huge deal to have a black journalist run the New York Times
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Chadwick Matlin / FiveThirtyEight:
Jill Abramson Wouldn't Be the Only Female Editor to Face a Pay Gap
Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:
The Times' new editor must navigate business-side challenges, and still match the great journalism …
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
The unceremonial rise of Dean Baquet
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Politico:
Why Jill Abramson's departure will ricochet
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Myles Tanzer / BuzzFeed:
Internal NYT report on digital publishing: weak support systems, neglect of social promotion, editors “unfamiliar with the web”, more — Exclusive: Times Internal Report Painted Dire Digital Picture — “Our journalism advantage is shrinking,” a committee led by the publisher's son warned.
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Zachary M. Seward / Quartz:
The homepage is dead, and the social web has won—even at the New York Times — Traffic to the New York Times homepage fell by half in the last two years, according to the newspaper's internal review of its digital strategy. Here's the very stark chart: — That's not necessarily …
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Internal NYT report could be valuable for other publishers mulling digital future
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Bloomberg:
Comcast's Race for Customers May Spur $170 Billion Deals — Comcast Corp.'s bid to buy Time Warner Cable Inc. may be the opening act for a yearlong festival of telecommunications deals that would alter Internet, phone and TV service for tens of millions of Americans. — AT&T Inc. and DirecTV may be the next dance partners.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Comcast, Charter Appoint Cable Veteran Michael Willner CEO of Spinoff MSO
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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC votes for Internet “fast lanes,” but could change its mind later — Chairman: “There is one Internet: Not a fast internet. Not a slow Internet.” — The Federal Communications Commission today voted in favor of a preliminary proposal to allow Internet “fast lanes,” …
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Adi Robertson / The Verge:
The real battle for net neutrality just began
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Guardian:
Guardian, Associated Press and local Missouri papers sue state over lethal injection secrecy — Guardian challenges lethal injection secrecy in landmark Missouri lawsuit — Challenge brought by Guardian, AP and three newspapers says US public has a right to know about how drugs are being used
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Financial Times:
Financial Times appoints Gillian Tett US managing editor — Distinguished editor Martin Dickson to retire — The Financial Times today announces the appointment of Gillian Tett to the role of US managing editor. Tett returns to oversee the FT's print and online editions in the Americas from 1 September.
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Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
Huffington Post Founders Settle Lawsuit Over Its Origins — A three-year-old lawsuit over the origins of the Huffington Post, involving claims that stretch back over a decade, has been quietly settled. — Arianna Huffington and her cofounder, Ken Lerer, have insisted all along that Daou …
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Jonathan Zittrain / New York Times:
Don't Force Google to ‘Forget’ — CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — THE European Court of Justice ruled on Tuesday that Europeans have a limited “right to be forgotten” by search engines like Google. According to the ruling, an individual can compel Google to remove certain reputation-harming search results …
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businessjournalism.org:
Veteran business journalist named new director of Reynolds Center — Micheline Maynard, Reynolds Center Director — Micheline Maynard, a former New York Times senior business correspondent, will be the new director of the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism …
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David Adams / Reuters:
Cuban blogger to launch island's first independent online newspaper — Cuba's prize-winning blogger, Yoani Sanchez, is launching the island's first independent digital newspaper next week to challenge the communist-ruled country's state-controlled media. — Sanchez said the online publication …
Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:
Fox and Apollo Global Management in talks on TV joint venture — Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox and the private equity firm Apollo Global Management have entered into a preliminary agreement to create a joint venture consisting of several leading television production companies, people familiar with the matter said.
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