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8:00 AM ET, May 16, 2014

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Ken Auletta / New Yorker:
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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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
Amanda Hess / Slate:
Jill Abramson was everything to young women at the New York Times.
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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Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The leaked New York Times innovation report is one of the key documents of this media age  —  There are few things that can galvanize the news world's attention like a change in leadership atop The New York Times.  Jill Abramson's ouster yesterday afternoon probably reduced American newsroom …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and @niemanlab
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
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 …
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
Patrick Kingsley / Guardian:
Al-Jazeera journalists' lawyers told to pay £100,000 to see key evidence  —  Court in Egypt hears prosecutors demanding fee for access to secret videos which case against trio relies on  —  Lawyers defending three al-Jazeera journalists on trial in Egypt have been asked to pay …
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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 …
Discussion: Engadget
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
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 …
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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Lucia Moses / Digiday:
FT's focus on video means longer, un-paywalled pieces; new video studio opening in NYC in June  —  The Financial Times' unconventional approach to video  —  Publishers all over are clamoring to produce more online video these days, and The Financial Times is no exception.
Discussion: @we_digital, @digiday and @raju
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Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:
The Times' new editor must navigate business-side challenges, and still match the great journalism that Abramson produced  —  The Times' new editor must navigate business-side challenges, and still match the great journalism that Abramson produced  —  Dean Baquet faces a different set …
Discussion: Fortune and AdAge
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Richard Prince / Quartz:
Yes, it's a huge deal to have a black journalist run the New York Times
Discussion: WGBH News and All Digitocracy
 
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