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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.
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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 …
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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CNNMoney.com, @alexis_ok, @feminsist and Politico
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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HBR.org, USA Today, Jezebel, The Huffington Post, Politico, Vox, The Week, @mcmoynihan, @jillfilipovic, @langluy, @feministe, @jmbooyah, @courtwrites, @katetropa, @biellacoleman, @kissane, @geraldinesealey, @jenniferweiner, @noamscheiber, The New York Observer, BuzzFeed, MediaPost, @lpolgreen, @joshuafoust, @emilylhauser, Talking Points Memo and The Newspaper Guild
Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:
NYT mishandles firing of executive editor, forces own reporters to rely on anonymous sources — The New York Times Is Run by a Human PR Disaster — The New York Times, and in particular its publisher, Pinch “Pinch” Sulzberger Jr., is taking a lot of flack for abruptly firing editor Jill Abramson yesterday.
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Washington Post, @blakehounshell, Mediaite, @arimelber, Quartz, @clarajeffery and @markhor
Chadwick Matlin / FiveThirtyEight:
Jill Abramson Wouldn't Be the Only Female Editor to Face a Pay Gap — On Wednesday afternoon, The New York Times replaced Jill Abramson as editor-in-chief. She had been on the job for less than three years, and the newsroom was caught off guard: … Among media wags, the question quickly became why Abramson was dismissed.
Rachel Sklar / Medium:
Abramson was treated shockingly badly, but still walks away with power and a legacy
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Gawker, @sallykohn, @ihearttheroad, @ali_gharib, @taliabuford, @jacquib, @larrysmith, @dcgisenyi, @mikebarnicle, @jessicarotondi, @craigsilverman and @moorehn
Politico:
Why Jill Abramson's departure will ricochet
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Bloomberg, @fmanjoo, @ggbirnbaum, @nickbilton, @zbergson, @nayantararai and @nayantararai
Kate Aurthur / BuzzFeed:
Jill Abramson's Firing And The New York Times' Chaotic Future
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The Guardian, The Huffington Post, Smartertimes.com, Vanity Fair, Politico, The Hairpin, Business Insider, Businessweek, WGBH News, The Wrap, New York Magazine and Mashable
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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Nieman Journalism Lab, Lost Remote, USA Today, Gigaom, @timduggan, @jamesrbuk, @dvnjr, @amreadertoo, Washington Post, Mashable, Digiday, Business Insider, @tcarmody, @pkafka, @pmarca, @abeaujon, @tomscocca, @jamilsmith, @stefanjbecket, @ftrain, @martin_k, @lizsly, @michaelbhaskar, @walldo, @dkthomp, @joshsternberg, @byrontau, @mccarthyryanj, @edpilkington, @bennyjohnson, @mattfraction, @blakehounshell, @tomgara, @arusbridger, @drudge_report, @romenesko, Capital New York and Gawker
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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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@dannysullivan, @rubinafillion, @ia, @dkthomp, @nycjim and @antderosa
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Internal NYT report could be valuable for other publishers mulling digital future
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@samuelclay, @russ_walker, @mediatwit and @lukeoneil47
Richard Prince / Quartz:
Yes, it's a huge deal to have a black journalist run the New York Times — It's a long time since 1945, when the New York Times hired George Streator as its first African American reporter. Streator's tenure did not end happily. In their 1999 book, The Trust, Susan E. Tifft and Alex S. Jones write …
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All Digitocracy, @tcarmody and @mlcalderone
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Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:
The Times' new editor must navigate business-side challenges, and still match the great journalism …
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Media & Entertainment and FishbowlNY
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
The unceremonial rise of Dean Baquet
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New York Times, The Huffington Post and Vox
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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Poynter, @edpilkington, @guardianus, @motherjones, @guardian, The Wire, @cjr and Mother Jones
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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PandoDaily, Washington Post, MarketWatch, VentureBeat and SocialTimes
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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FishbowlNY, @jackshafer, @edmundlee, @s_m_i, Poynter and @edgecliffe
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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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Gigaom and PETER DAOU
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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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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Hollywood Reporter, Deadline.com, Variety, Business Wire and @jbflint
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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Poynter
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 …
Charlotte Higgins / Guardian:
The big beasts who shaped the BBC — It has had 16 directors general since 1922, and each one has imprinted his personality on the corporation - but what makes a good leader of such a huge institution? And can they ever escape the fateful twist of politics? Charlotte Higgins reports
Hannah Karp / Wall Street Journal:
Warner, Universal, Sony Buy Stakes in Music App Shazam — Shazam Entertainment, the music-identification app, landed small investments from the world's biggest record companies, according to people familiar with the matter. — Warner Music Group owner Access Industries …
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Inc.com, Gigaom, Billboard and Digital Music News
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Hank Stuever / Washington Post:
Barbara Walters retires: So long to one of America's last great listeners — TV newswoman Barbara Walters retires from on-air work this week on “The View” and ABC News, having lived and broadcast so long in the mass media age that she outlasted the term “newswoman.”
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