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7:20 AM ET, May 18, 2014

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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 …
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Sources: Sulzberger fired Abramson because he felt she misled him, others in recruiting Gibson  —  Sulzberger's last straw  —  New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger fired executive editor Jill Abramson after concluding that she had misled both him and chief executive Mark Thompson during …
Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
The NYT's Game of Thrones: How the Top Journalism Job Was Dangled at Guardian Editor
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.
Peter Lauria / BuzzFeed:
The End Of The Print New York Times  —  The acknowledgement in the paper's “Innovation Report” that too much time and energy is focused on its front page portends a seismic shift in both the Times 's cultural and business approach to news.  —  Ahmad Hashim / Via Flickr: 3ammo
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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 …
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 …
Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:
After Months Of Disagreements, Here's Why Insiders Say BuzzFeed President Jon Steinberg Left  —  About two weeks ago, Jon Steinberg and Jonah Peretti had a discussion behind closed doors.  Shortly after, Ken Lerer's phone rang.  —  Steinberg would be leaving BuzzFeed, Peretti told Lerer.
Discussion: @fmanjoo, @pkafka and @stevekovach
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?
Discussion: Talking Biz News
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 …
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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