Top News:
Ken Auletta / The New Yorker:
A pay dispute, friction with new CEO and hiring disagreements led to the firing of NYT executive editor, Jill Abramson — Why Jill Abramson Was Fired — At the annual City University Journalism School dinner, on Monday, Dean Baquet, the managing editor of the New York Times …
Discussion:
New York Magazine, vox.com, Poynter, Bloomberg, Vox, Politico, Mediaite, Gawker, USA Today, The Huffington Post, Media Nation, @davidfolkenflik, Capital New York, FishbowlNY, Capital New York, Talking Points Memo, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, New York Times, The Wrap, Wall Street Journal, @davidfolkenflik, @davidfolkenflik, @davidfolkenflik, @davidfolkenflik, @davidfolkenflik, @davidfolkenflik, @davidfolkenflik, @davidfolkenflik, @capetown_girl, @margafret, @jeffbercovici, @resnikoff, @jaspjackson, @dylanbyers, @karaswisher, @abeaujon, @schadenfraade, @emilybell, @ravisomaiya, Politico, @mathewi, @film_girl, Capital New York, Washington Post, bookforum.com, Slate, Mashable, @megreenwell, The Wrap, @edmundlee, @jayrosen_nyu, @jeffbercovici, LA Observed and Mediaite
RELATED:
New York Times:
Jill Abramson unexpectedly leaving as executive editor at NYT, to be replaced by Dean Baquet — Times Ousts Its Executive Editor, Elevating Second in Command — The New York Times dismissed Jill Abramson as executive editor on Wednesday, replacing her with Dean Baquet, the managing editor, in an abrupt change of leadership.
Discussion:
The Guardian, @dgelles, Politico, Vox, Media & Entertainment, Fox News, The Wrap, Washington Post, MediaWire Daily, FishbowlNY, Capital New York, Businessweek, Washington Post, Forbes, @patcohennyt, @brianstelter, BuzzFeed, WGBH News, Mashable, Vox, Adweek, investors.nytco.com, @huffpostbiz, @natesilver538, @lauriegnyt, Talking Biz News, @c_heller, Vanity Fair, @antderosa, @jasoncherkis, @nytfridge, @matthewwells, Pressing Issues, @moorehn, @moorehn, @jbenton, @samir, The Maynard Institute …, @gaberivera, @emilcdc, @alexkoppelman, @joepompeo, @ezraklein, @antderosa, @nxthompson, @nataliekitro, WWD, CNNMoney.com, New York Magazine, Eamonn Fitzgerald's Rainy Day, Forbes, NPR, The Huffington Post, Poynter, Talking Points Memo, @robedits, @edmundlee, Jezebel, @gabrielsnyder, @tcarmody, FAIR Blog, Al Jazeera America, Wall Street Journal, The Root, Fortune, Columbia Journalism Review, Variety, Business Insider, @mckaycoppins, The Wire, @irastoll, @pogue, Mediaite and Gawker
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.
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.
Discussion:
@jillfilipovic, Jezebel, @biellacoleman, @kissane, @noamscheiber, @jenniferweiner, @lpolgreen, @joshuafoust, @emilylhauser and The Newspaper Guild
Kate Aurthur / BuzzFeed:
Jill Abramson's Firing And The New York Times' Chaotic Future — The abrupt dismissal of the executive editor portends a bumpy road ahead for her successor, Dean Baquet, and the rest of the newsroom. — Brad Barket / Getty Images for WIRED — When the news broke that Jill Abramson …
Discussion:
Slate, Politico, @abarnardnyt, @stuartpstevens, @erinnthered, @thefix and @ajfriedenberger
Politico:
Why Jill Abramson's departure will ricochet
Discussion:
Vox, @ggbirnbaum, @nayantararai, @zbergson, @fmanjoo, @nickbilton, @nayantararai and @dylanbyers
Dylan Byers / Politico:
N.Y. Times: Abramson's compensation ‘was not less than’ Bill Keller's
Discussion:
Gawker, Salon, @petersterne, Jezebel, Mediaite, Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, FishbowlNY, The New York Observer, MediaWire Daily, Forbes, @neetzan and @dylanmatt
Kelly McBride / Poynter:
The New York Times owes the audience an explanation
Discussion:
@lexinyt, SocialTimes, @lexinyt, @drudge, The Wrap, Talking Points Memo, @kellymcb and Mediaite
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 …
Discussion:
@tcarmody and @mlcalderone
RELATED:
Joe Coscarelli / New York Magazine:
Everything You Need to Know About Dean Baquet, the First Black Executive Editor of the New York Times — A bit buried in the unexpected announcement that the New York Times is ditching its first female executive editor, Jill Abramson, after less than three years, is that the man replacing her is also historic.
Discussion:
TIME, The Huffington Post, @juliadavisnews, @palafo and The Newspaper Guild
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 …
Discussion:
Telegraph, Guardian, Associated Press, ZDNet, Daily Mail, The Independent, CBC News, CNN, Phys.org, Tech2, @nytopinion, @julianhuppert, @zittrain, Wall Street Journal, TIME, The Hill, Guardian and Slate
RELATED:
Agence France-Presse:
Digital companies demand new Google anti-trust probe — The Open Internet Project, which includes 400 players in Europe's digital markets, lodged a complaint with the European Commission on Thursday against what it alleges are new anti-competitive abuses by Google. — PHOTOS
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.
Discussion:
@edgecliffe
RELATED:
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
FT's focus on video means longer, un-paywalled pieces; new video studio opening in NYC in June
Discussion:
@raju
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 …
Discussion:
Inc.com, @chriswelch, Reuters, Billboard and hypebot
RELATED:
Todd Spangler / Variety:
NCM to Bring Disney's Maker, Twitter, Shazam and Grammys to In-Theater Ad Network
Discussion:
TechCrunch
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Apple's Beats Deal May Not Be Finalized Until Next Week — More time for people to speculate about what it all means: Apple's planned deal to buy Beats Electronics for $3.2 billion may not be finalized until next week, according to people familiar with the transaction.
Discussion:
Electronista, AppleInsider, Cult of Mac, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Business Insider, App Advice, BGR and hypebot
Myles Tanzer / BuzzFeed:
Exclusive: Times Internal Report Painted Dire Digital Picture — “Our journalism advantage is shrinking,” a committee led by the publisher's son warned. A call to get rid of the metaphor of “Church and State.” — A 96-page internal New York Times report, sent to top executives last month …
Discussion:
@stefanjbecket
William Turvill / Press Gazette:
Trinity Mirror reports 3 per cent revenue decline and notes ongoing investigation into hacking at Mirror titles — Newspaper publisher Trinity Mirror has reported a 3 per cent year-on-year revenue decline for the first 17 weeks of 2014. — An interim management statement released today showed …
Discussion:
journallive, Guardian, thedrum.com and HoldTheFrontPage
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
Discussion:
@guardian
Jack Shafer:
The (misguided) passion of Glenn Greenwald — It's not that journalists have thin skins — it's that they have no skins. — This adage gets trotted out once a month or more in better newsrooms to provide context for the overreaction of a reporter or editor who has found himself …
Discussion:
Mediaite, @kbandersen, @gammonator, @jackshafer, @fieldproducer, @dominicumile, @froomkin, @sauravdatta29, @leftleaningec and @joanneleon
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Comcast, Charter Appoint Cable Veteran Michael Willner CEO of Spinoff MSO — Cable industry vet Michael Willner will serve as president and CEO of “SpinCo,” the new cable company with 2.5 million subscribers that Comcast will spin off after its acquisition of Time Warner Cable under Comcast's deal with Charter.
Discussion:
multichannel.com, Deadline.com and Bloomberg
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.”
Discussion:
Associated Press, Newsday, Daily Mail, Hollywood Reporter, NY Daily News and Television
Tara Conlan / Guardian:
Sacked BBC technology boss claims he was the fall guy for £100m DMI debacle — John Linwood, who is claiming unfair dismissal, tells tribunal project only accounted for an average of 5% of his working time — Former BBC chief technology officer John Linwood has claimed he was a …
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Police didn't publicise scale of hacking to protect victims, says NoW reporter — Clive Goodman tells court names including Kate Middleton have only emerged now because they were not disclosed in 2006-7 — Police did not want the full extent of hacking including that of Kate Middleton …
Discussion:
thedrum.com
Commissioning Editor - Practical Law — 
Energy Markets Reporter, London — 
Oil Reporter, Singapore — 
Newsperson - State Govt. & Politics, CA — 
Business Reporter, SC — 
State Government Reporter, WA — 
Climate Crisis Columnist — 
Multimedia Journalist, CA — 
Community Engagement Mgr., DC — 
Staff Writer - Business, NY — 
Editor, MA — 
Team Editor - Breaking News, ON — 
Senior Reporter & Event Host, NY/CA — 
Climate & Weather Reporter, MN — 
Senior Tech Editor, Remote US — 
News Reporter, MA — 
Multimedia Journalist, PA — 
Managing Editor, WA — 
Private Credit Reporter, NY — 
Trending News Reporter, TX — 
Legislative Reporter, CA — 
Reporter, PA — 
Visual Editor, Remote — 
Staff Writer, MI — 
California Playbook Writer, CA — 
Senior Media Editor — 
National Investigative Reporter, NY — 
Business & Gaming Reporter, NV — 
Coastal Climate Reporter, SC — 
Environment & Energy Reporter, CT — 
Coordinating Editor, OR — 
Staff Reporter, CA — 
Data Editor, NY — 
Editor-in-Chief, AZ — 
