Mediagazer: Female journalists in leadership positions keep getting stuck in “editing while female” trap (Susan B. Glasser/Politico)

11:55 PM ET, May 18, 2014

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Editor's Exit at The Times Puts Tensions on Display — Back in 2010, before she became executive editor of The New York Times, Jill Abramson sent me a handwritten attaboy note about a big story. It still hangs in my cubicle: “You wrote a story about the trashing of a once great American institution and people never tire of that.”

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Kara Swisher / Re/code:

Dear Jill: From One Pushy Media Dame to Another — Let me be perfectly clear when it comes to ousted New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson: She has, on some occasions I have spent time with her, scared the bejesus out of me. — That said, it was in a very good way.

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Ken Auletta / New Yorker:

Guardian's Gibson weighs in on NYT and Abramson: “Jill should not have been hung out to dry” — Why Jill Abramson Was Fired: Part III — In my last post exploring why Jill Abramson was fired as executive editor of the New York Times by Arthur O. Sulzberger, Jr. …

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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 …

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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 …

Susan B. Glasser / Politico:

Female journalists in leadership positions keep getting stuck in “editing while female” trap — Editing While Female — Field notes from one of journalism's most dangerous jobs. — Over the weekend, I had a long dinner in Paris with a close friend from our days together as foreign correspondents in Moscow.

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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

AT&T:

AT&T agrees to acquire DirecTV in stock-and-cash deal for $95 per share — AT&T to Acquire DIRECTV — Creates Content Distribution Leader Across Mobile, Video & Broadband Platforms — The premier pay TV brand with the best content relationships now poised to deliver video to multiple screens …

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BuzzFeed:

AT&T Buys DirecTV For $67 Billion In Second Major Deal To Reshape TV Industry — The deal, announced Sunday night after roughly a month of negotiations, follows Comcast's impending acquisition of Time Warner Cable for $45.2 billion. Both deals will face intense regulatory scrutiny. — AP

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Steve Kovach / Business Insider: DirecTV deal valued at $48.5B, or $67.1B with debt; AT&T frames purchase as a way to extend internet access to rural areas

Nathan Mattise / Ars Technica: AT&T and DirecTV vow to follow FCC's 2010 net neutrality guidelines for three years after deal closes

Todd Spangler / Variety:

YouTube to Acquire Videogame-Streaming Service Twitch for $1 Billion: Sources — Deal would be biggest ever for YouTube — Google's YouTube has reached a deal to buy Twitch, a popular videogame-streaming company, for more than $1 billion, according to sources familiar with the pact.

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Wall Street Journal:

Google's acquisition talks with Twitch still at an early stage — Google in Talks About Possible Acquisition of Twitch — Google's Talks With Live Video-Streaming Service at Early Stage — Google Inc. is in talks about a possible acquisition of Twitch, a fast-growing live video-streaming service …

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Margalit Fox / New York Times:

William Worthy, a Reporter Drawn to Forbidden Datelines, Dies at 92 — William Worthy, a foreign correspondent who in the thick of the Cold War ventured where the United States did not want him to go — including the Soviet Union, China, Cuba — and became the subject of both a landmark …

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