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4:50 AM ET, May 16, 2014

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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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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 …
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 …
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.
Rachel Sklar / Medium:
Abramson was treated shockingly badly, but still walks away with power and a legacy  —  The Prettiest Girl At The Party  —  Let's talk about Jill Abramson.  Jill Abramson, the first female executive editor to lead the New York Times.  Jill Abramson, who took pride in having brought gender parity to the NYT masthead.
Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:
NYT mishandles firing of executive editor, forces own reporters to rely on anonymous sources
Chadwick Matlin / FiveThirtyEight:
Jill Abramson Wouldn't Be the Only Female Editor to Face a Pay Gap
Myles Tanzer / BuzzFeed:
Internal NYT report on digital publishing: weak support systems, neglect of social promotion, editors “unfamiliar with the web”, more  —  Exclusive: New York 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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Khoi / Subtraction.com:
Ex-NYT design chief Khoi Vinh on internal report: what matters is how company acts on it  —  The New York Times Innovation Report  —  Buzzfeed got a hold of a 96-page report on the state of innovation at The New York Times, prepared by a select group of the company's staffers and intended for internal distribution only.
Discussion: BuzzFeed, @gkjohn and @gplefka
Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
Les Moonves Confirms CBS is Developing Digital News Channel; David Rhodes Oversees  —  CBS is in the “early stages” of developing a 24-hour digital news network, CBS Corp. CEO Les Moonves says.  Appearing on Bloomberg today, Moonves told Trish Regan the digital channel will be “an exciting alternative to cable news.”
Discussion: Bloomberg, The Wrap and Deadline.com
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.
Discussion: @sherman4949
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Comcast, Charter Appoint Cable Veteran Michael Willner CEO of Spinoff MSO
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 …
Discussion: Engadget
Nic Christensen / mUmBRELLA:
ABCs: Newspapers continue print declines with mixed results on digital subscriptions  —  Sales of Fairfax's weekday print titles The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald have fallen by 25,000 and 21,000 editions respectively in the year since the publisher switched from broadsheet to ‘compact’ size last March …
Discussion: TheAustralian
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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Reporters Without Borders:
United States - US should not adopt “information warfare” approach  —  On 30 April, the US House of Representatives approved a bill, the US International Communications Reform Act, which aims to restructure the US federal government-funded international media and, in particular …
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businessjournalism.org:
Veteran business journalist named new director of Reynolds Center
Discussion: Poynter
Charlotte Higgins / Guardian:
The big beasts who shaped the BBC
Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
Huffington Post Founders Settle Lawsuit Over Its Origins
Discussion: PETER DAOU and Gigaom
Guardian:
Guardian, Associated Press and local Missouri papers sue state over lethal injection secrecy
Agence France-Presse:
Digital companies demand new Google anti-trust probe
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Tara Conlan / Guardian:
Sacked BBC technology boss claims he was the fall guy for £100m DMI debacle
Jonathan Zittrain / New York Times:
Don't Force Google to ‘Forget’
William Turvill / Press Gazette:
Trinity Mirror reports 3 per cent revenue decline and notes ongoing investigation into hacking at Mirror titles
William Turvill / Press Gazette:
Channel 4 News editor Ben de Pear: ‘We are like an ant versus Goliath when it comes to the BBC’
S.P. / Economist:
French newspapers: Blood on the cutting room floor
Discussion: New York Times
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Contextly Launches Its Editorial Tools To Find “Related Content” That's Actually Related
Discussion: Context
Owen Bowcott / Guardian:
David Miranda allowed to appeal against ruling on Heathrow detention