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Dylan Byers / Politico:
NYT publisher Arthur Sulzberger publicly defends firing of Abramson, citing poor management, denies pay issues — N.Y. Times defends Abramson firing — New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. released a statement on Saturday stating that former executive editor Jill Abramson was fired because …
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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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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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BuzzFeed:
AT&T Set To Announce DirecTV Acquisition Sunday — “The deal is done.” — AT&T is on track to announce its acquisition of the satellite company DirectTV this Sunday, before markets open Monday and sooner than many observers anticipated, a source familiar with DirecTV's plans told BuzzFeed.
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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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Rachel Bartlett / Journalism.co.uk:
How The Economist will deliver a daily radio programme to its digital audience, by curating audio versions of its blog posts as well as podcasts — How The Economist will deliver a daily radio programme to its digital audience, by curating audio versions of its blog posts as well as podcasts
Capital New York:
The 60-second interview: Sharon Waxman, founder of The Wrap — CAPITAL: TheWrap just launched a syndicated news wire service, WrapWire. Tell me a little about the new wire service. Was there a fundamental problem that you were trying to solve or is this more of a value add for TheWrap?
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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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Jason Abbruzzese / Mashable:
The Full New York Times Innovation Report — An internal report on innovation at the New York Times acquired by Mashable highlights the paper's struggle to embrace digital publishing. — BuzzFeed on Thursday published an almost-complete version of the report, which highlights some of the issues …
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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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Associated Press:
Lawyer: Philly newspaper auction set for May 27 — The feuding owners of Philadelphia's two largest newspapers will vie for the company at a head-to-head auction set for May 27. — The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News are being sold for the fifth time since 2006, as the industry struggles to stay afloat.
Jessica Testa / BuzzFeed:
Buzzfeed finds a gender pay gap at higher levels in quick non-random survey of 900 journalists — Here's What Female And Male Journalists Actually Make — Nearly 900 journalists (anonymously) responded to BuzzFeed's salary survey. Men and women appear to start their media careers on the same footing …
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