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David Folkenflik / NPR:

‘Period Of Turmoil’ Preceded Abramson Firing, Says Top Editor At ‘Times’ — Dean Baquet sat in his new office in midtown Manhattan, the very picture of composure and precision, as he described the top-level dysfunction that led to the firing of Jill Abramson as executive editor of The New York Times …

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Apple Will Use Curation To Beat A Path To Mainstreaming Music — Ask the average person who their favorite musicians are and they'll struggle to name more than a few. That's one reason search-based streaming services haven't hit critical mass. They force users to know what they want to hear.

Discussion: New York Times, Forbes, Mashable, 9to5Mac and hypebot

Michael Vakulenko / Medium:
Beats is a platform, connecting artists with fans; Apple's users will enable network effects on it

Discussion: @mikeelgan, Guardian, @danielpunkass, @mryall, @cdixon, @pgiese, @monkbent, @tomgara, @richoakley, hypebot, Digital Media Wire, Forbes, Re/code, The Verge and VatorNews

Ben Popper / The Verge:
Apple didn't want Beats, it needed Beats

Discussion: memeburn, MacStories and Tech Trader Daily

Bill Mickey / Folio:

Source Interlink Media Rebrands, Closes 12 Titles — New corporate identity: TEN: The Enthusiast Network — Major changes are happening at Source Interlink Media, publisher of Surfing, Motortrend and approximately 60 other enthusiast titles. Newly installed CEO Scott Dickey announced …

Discussion: Publishers Weekly, Folio, Orange County Business …, The News-Press, @cayseyw and Talking New Media

Matt Hardigree / Jalopnik:
Automobile Magazine Cuts Staff And Fires Editor

Discussion: AdAge, Automobile Magazine, Jalopnik, @sailthetethys, @nsfwlife, @dutch_mandel, @steintrek, @randyshayler, @pseudobread, @stanceandspeed, @jalopnik, @mattclarke_am, @nytjamescobb, BMW BLOG, @zoomy575m, @mickimaynard, @damonlavrinc and Autoblog

Alexis Sobel Fitts / Columbia Journalism Review:

Despite earlier promises of investment in staff, The Wire continues drifting without an editor — Chaos at The Wire? — Without an editor in chief, The Atlantic's army of young aggregators is directionless — Back in November, things seemed promising at The Wire.

Discussion: @mathewi

Jeremy Barr / Capital New York:

Coming soon from Andrew Golis and Atlantic Media: ‘This.’ — Atlantic Media is preparing to launch “This.,” a new digital project spearheaded by Andrew Golis, who serves as general manager of The Wire, a source with knowledge of the venture told Capital. — The goal of the vertical …

Discussion: @maura and the npr social media desk

Sam Kirkland / Poynter:

One year after 28 Sun-Times photojournalists were laid off, where are they now? — One year ago today, the Chicago Sun-Times eliminated its photo staff, laying off 28 full-time employees. — Most of them have landed on their feet, according to email and phone interviews with many of the photographers.

Discussion: @abeaujon, @jbenton, @poynter and The Newspaper Guild

Brian Fung / Washington Post:

FCC to consider changing the definition of “broadband” to 25Mbps, up from the current 4Mbps — The FCC may consider a stricter definition of broadband in the Netflix age — What is high-speed Internet? Believe it or not, there is a technical definition. Currently, it's set at 4 megabits per second.

Discussion: Glass

Associated Press:

France restricts coverage of D-Day anniversary — PARIS (AP) — Millions of viewers worldwide could miss live coverage of the commemorations marking the 70th anniversary of D-Day next week because the French president's office reversed a decision to grant international news agencies free access to the broadcast.

Discussion: TVNewser, Poynter, Broadcasting & Cable and GlobalPost

Rem Rieder / USA Today:

Rieder: Time to pass shield law for journalists — Last summer, supporters were confident that at long last the federal shield law for journalists would be enacted. — After a number of false starts, they were convinced that the stars were aligned and that a measure to ensure that journalists …

Michael D. Shear / New York Times:

White House Press Secretary Resigns — WASHINGTON — Jay Carney, the White House press secretary, is leaving his post as the public face of the administration, stepping down after shifting from two decades of reporting to politics at the highest levels, President Obama said on Friday.

Discussion: NBC News and CNN

Brian Anthony Hernandez / Mashable:

TV on Twitter: Starz Is Debuting Full ‘Power’ Episode in New Video Feature — Starz will premiere its new crime drama Power on Twitter, using the social platform's new in-line video feature that allows one-touch playback via Twitter Cards. — The full episode will appear in a tweet …

Discussion: Zap2it

Kate Tummarello / The Hill:

National Association of Broadcasters plans second FCC lawsuit over shared resource agreements — Broadcasters to sue FCC on resource-sharing ban — The broadcast industry plans to sue the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) over its decision to crack down on resource-sharing deals between broadcasters.

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable

Richard Prince / Richard Prince's Journal-isms:

How Maya Angelou learned on the job after landing an editor's job in Egypt with no experience — In 1960, Renaissance Woman Landed Editor's Job in Egypt — Maya Angelou, the Renaissance woman who assumed roles ranging from poet to calypso singer, for a brief time was also a journalist.

Discussion: @africandevjobs and @princeeditor

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Probably not a surprise: Turns out your boss spends a lot of time in email — reading news — Do you work in a handsome corner office, one with a view? If so, you likely get a lot of your news in your inbox. — Of course, that's true for many non-captains of industry too.

Discussion: Medium, @peteskomoroch and @tothevictor

Agence France-Presse:

Turkey sentences Twitter user to jail for blasphemy — Istanbul (AFP) - A Turkish court on Thursday handed a 15-month jail term to a teacher over Twitter posts deemed religiously offensive, local media reported on Thursday. — The court in the eastern city of Mus ruled that the man …

Discussion: Mashable and Daily Dot

Al Jazeera English:
Turkey's top court rejects YouTube ban

Discussion: Gigaom, USA Today, BBC, Reuters and Associated Press

Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Journalism Lab:

It's alive! What NPR learned from turning its @nprnews Twitter account from a bot into a human — May 22 was World Goth Day! To celebrate, NPR's main Twitter account, @nprnews, sent out a tweet to its 2 million-plus followers sharing a 2013 NPR story on Goth Barbie.

Discussion: @vivian and the npr social media desk