Mediagazer: Jill Abramson on What Happened at the New York Times, and What She's Doing Next: The Full Code/Media Interview (Peter Kafka/Re/code)

7:05 AM ET, September 12, 2014

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Dan Shanoff / Nieman Lab:

Wearables could make the “glance” a new subatomic unit of news — Next year will be my twentieth in digital news. From the start, I had an underlying disposition that digital news consumers — sports or otherwise — wanted their content easily digestible: brief, formatted, convenient.

Discussion: TinyLetter and ZDNet

Leo Kelion / BBC:

Yahoo News Digest's Nick D'Aloisio describes its strategy and plans for Apple Watch and other wearables — Yahoo prodigy Nick D'Aloisio weighs up education and work — The British teenager who sold his news summary app to Yahoo for millions is facing a major life choice as he weighs education and business opportunities.

Discussion: VentureBeat, MobileSyrup.com, The Verge and Mashable

Myles Tanzer / BuzzFeed:

News apps were absent from Apple's Watch presentation, but Yahoo and Circa are building them — The Future Of News On The Apple Watch Is In Yahoo's Hands For Now — Yahoo News Digest already works on the Apple Watch. — Stephen Lam / Reuters — During its two-hour keynote this week …

Discussion: Nieman Lab, @adamcahan and VentureBeat

Jeremy Barr / Capital New York:

Times Book Review adds 12 new ‘Best Seller’ lists — The New York Times Book Review is adding 12 new monthly lists, part of a larger overhaul of the storied arbiter of literary success, it was announced Thursday morning. — The new “Best Seller” lists will include subjects like humor, travel, family and animals.

Discussion: GalleyCat, Melville House Books, Publishers Weekly and NetNewsCheck Latest

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Jill Abramson on What Happened at the New York Times, and What She's Doing Next: The Full Code/Media Interview — Jill Abramson says she can't explain, precisely, why she was fired from the New York Times' top editing job in May. But she's happy to talk about it.

Discussion: @leerichardson and @pkafka

Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:

IndieWeb advocates launch Known so bloggers can be social and still control their content — The founders of Known have launched an open-source web publishing tool that uses a number of IndieWeb standards to give users control over their content, instead of handing it and all the related data …

Steven Perlberg / Wall Street Journal:

YouTube Alone Brings In 20% Of Digital Video Ad Revenue — When it comes to ad dollars moving into the red-hot online video market, YouTube is king. But it's feeling pressure from potential digital usurpers. — YouTube will bring in $1.13 billion in 2014 video ad revenue …

Discussion: MediaPost, Los Angeles Times and Reuters

Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:

Refocusing on revenue: How The Lens is dealing with budget shortfalls in New Orleans — Most students in New Orleans now attend charter schools after the widespread damage caused to the city from Hurricane Katrina. That presents a challenge for most news organizations because there are …

Discussion: Washington Post, @derekwillis, @a_l, @a_l, @grdodgemedia and The Texas Tribune

Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:

Why a Hit TV Show Got Canceled: Its Fans Were Too Old — ‘Longmire’ Is Latest Victim of Industry's Focus on Young Viewers, Content Ownership — When a television show is consistently popular, its reward usually isn't getting canceled. — But that is what happened to “Longmire” …

Ben Fischer / New York Business Journal:

Outbrain, Taboola CEOs talk about how they will handle new competition from Yahoo, Facebook — The giants are coming for New York content-recommendation startups Taboola and Outbrain, who have battled each other for years but now see Silicon Valley's biggest names in their rear-view mirrors.

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

How Meridith Valiando Rojas Turns YouTube Celebrities into Concert Stars: The Full Code/Media Interview — You can have Beyonce and U2. Meridith Valiando Rojas has our2ndlife and lohanthony. — Who? Exactly, says Valiando Rojas, who doesn't want you to know who those people are …

Lucia Moses / Digiday:

Which millennial news sites are really attracting millennials? — There has been a rash of new startups based on the belief that millennials — that holy grail 18-34 demographic — are disaffected by the traditional news media. Surely, the logic goes, they'll embrace sites that are built with their tastes and sensibilities in mind.

Discussion: @axelletess