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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
NYT CEO Mark Thompson reiterates assertion that pay didn't play role in Abramson's firing — Times Co. Chief Addresses Executive Editor's Firing — The controversy over the firing of Jill Abramson, the former executive editor of The New York Times, continued on Friday …
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Monica Anderson / Pew Research Center:
As Jill Abramson exits the NY Times, a look at how women are faring in newsrooms — The departure of Jill Abramson marked an abrupt end to the reign of the first woman to run The New York Times, a role that made her a journalistic pioneer in her own right. Her dismissal comes during …
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Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
The NYT's Game of Thrones: How the Top Journalism Job Was Dangled at Guardian Editor
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Emily Bell / Guardian:
Jill Abramson's ouster shows women that we still must be more than good
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Manuel Roig-Franzia / Washington Post:
Dean Baquet, from New Orleans reporter to executive editor of the New York Times — There was a bullet in the barroom wall. And the kid reporter had to have it. — It mattered little to Dean Baquet and his reporting partner, another youngster named Jim Amoss, that the owner …
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
CNN fires news editor Marie-Louise Gumuchian for plagiarism [Updated] — CNN has fired a news editor in its London bureau for repeated plagiarism offenses, it announced in an editor's note today. — An internal investigation at the network found that Marie-Louise Gumuchian had published about 50 stories containing plagiarized work.
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Craig Silverman / Poynter:
CNN serial plagiarist primarily lifted from her old employer, Reuters — Editors at CNN were performing a regular spot check of content in the organization's publishing queue last week when they discovered that a story by London bureau news editor Marie-Louise Gumuchian included material taken without attribution from another source.
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Center for Public Integrity:
Center for Public Integrity's executive director stepping down — By The Center for Public Integrity 47 seconds ago Updated: 46 seconds ago — After eight years at the helm, Center for Public Integrity Executive Director Bill Buzenberg announced today that he will be stepping down from the nonprofit …
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Reuters:
Dow Jones wins injunction against Ransquawk over ‘hot news’ — (Reuters) - Dow Jones & Co has won a court order to stop the London-based service Ransquawk from broadcasting its news content within seconds of publication, without permission, to traders and other subscribers.
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Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
How Ziff Davis Came Back From the Dead By Embracing Ad Tech — It's the big question in digital media: how to make money amid a sea of competing sites and steadily declining ad prices. Vivek Shah thinks he has the solution. — As head of Ziff Davis, publisher of PCMag.com, Extremetech.com …
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Alex Kantrowitz / AdAge:
Big Brand Dollars Fuel Ecosystem Injecting Ads On Their Own Websites — Big Brand Dollars Fuel Ecosystem Injecting Ads On Their Own Websites — Creativity Reimagined — In one of the most bizarre scenes you'll see on the internet, a Target ad recently ran smack in the middle of Walmart.com.
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Rob Golum / Businessweek:
WWE shares fall 43% after it says online network won't make up for lost PPV and streaming video-on-demand revenue until 2015 — WWE Dives Most Since IPO as Online Network Cuts Pay Per View — World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. plunged the most since its initial public offering after saying …
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Emma Bazilian / Adweek:
The Atlantic Cities Relaunches as CityLab — The Atlantic Cities is finally all grown-up and heading out on its own—or getting its own URL, at least. — Following in the footsteps of sister property The Wire, the three-year-old urban-planning site is relaunching with a new name, CityLab …
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Henry Taylor / TheMediaBriefing:
Project Babb: How The Telegraph is experimenting with digital micro-sites — As an approach to product development, fail-fast and fail-happy appears to be the de rigueur method of the moment. Telegraph Media Group's chief content officer and editor-in-chief, Jason Seiken …
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