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2:00 PM ET, June 2, 2011

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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Abramson to Replace Keller as The Times's Executive Editor  —  Jill Abramson, a former investigative reporter and Washington bureau chief for The New York Times, will become the paper's executive editor, succeeding Bill Keller, who is stepping down to become a full-time writer for the paper.
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Grace Wyler / Business Insider:
BREAKING: Jill Abramson Named New Executive Editor Of The New York Times  —  The New York Times will announce at noon today that managing editor Jill Abramson will become the paper's first-ever female executive editor, beginning in September.  Bill Keller, the newspaper's current executive editor, is stepping down to return to writing.
Discussion: The Wire, FishbowlNY and Free Press
Scott Raab / Esquire:   Exclusive Q&A: Bill Keller on Leaving the Times, Fox & More
Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Meet the new boss: Jill Abramson's NYT ascent and its potential impact on the digital side of the Times
Discussion: Reuters, AdAge and Poynter
Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Exclusive: Glenn Beck's Last Day On Fox News Will Be June 30th  —  Mediaite has learned that Glenn Beck's last day on Fox News is currently scheduled to be June 30th.  Fox News has confirmed this information to Mediaite.  —  In the past month, ratings for Beck's ratings saw a double digit decline …
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
YouTube Now Lets You License Videos Under Creative Commons (Remixers, Rejoice)  —  If you've ever yearned to mash up your cat video with some C-SPAN footage but couldn't figure out how, today's your lucky day.  —  Because starting now, YouTube is giving users a choice over how they want to license their content.
Committee to Protect Journalists:
Getting Away With Murder  —  CPJ's 2011 Impunity Index spotlights countries where journalists are slain and killers go free  —  Russia and Mexico, two of the world's most murderous countries for the press, are heading in different directions in combating deadly anti-press violence …
Brenna Ehrlich / Mashable!:
MTV Launches Tumblr As Part of Digital Expansion  —  MTV has just added another social media tool to its roster in the form of a new Tumblr blog featuring original and reblogged content.  —  In an ongoing effort to expand its platform into all areas of the digital sphere …
nbcuniversal.presscentre.com:
VIVIAN SCHILLER JOINS NBC NEWS IN NEW ROLE AS CHIEF DIGITAL OFFICER  —  New position will oversee the digital strategy for NBC News and MSNBC  —  Vivian Schiller will be joining NBC News as Chief Digital Officer.  The announcement was made today by NBC News President Steve Capus.
Steven Kurutz / New York Times:
The Thriving (Online) Shelter Magazine Industry  —  SINCE Domino, the beloved shelter magazine, folded in early 2009, its staff members have gone on to lucrative consulting jobs, top editing posts, even television gigs, but none have advanced as swiftly as Michelle Adams.
Tom Scocca / Scocca:
Goodbye and See You Soon: Nothing Dies on the Internet  —  A blog has a history—697 posts before this one, if I added up the sidebar correctly—but it exists mainly in an apparently endless present.  Someone is on the Internet, on the publishing platform, reacting to the state of the world …
Discussion: FishbowlNY
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Donald Mahoney / Some Blind Alleys:
What time does the Super Bowl start?  Or, internet journalism after content farms  —  On February 6, 2011, the Huffington Post published what has become one of the most infamous and emblematic stories of the internet journalism age.  The story concerned the starting time of Super Bowl XLV.
Discussion: Future of Journalism
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Disney CEO Bob Iger on Apple, Social Networks and the Cloud  —  Disney sells some very analog forms of entertainment, like movies, broadcast and cable TV, and theme parks.  —  But Bob Iger's company has also been willing to experiment with digital outlets: The president and CEO …
Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:
Newspaper sales crisis enters sixth year  —  Following an unexpectedly sharp decline in advertising demand in the first three months of this year, newspapers now appear to be entering the sixth year of an unprecedented collapse that has vaporized half of their principal revenues since 2006.
Discussion: paidContent
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Business Insider launches Europe site  —  Business Insider, the New York-based business news site, has launched a European version that will be edited by Gregory White.  —  White writes, “Here we'll be taking the best of what we already do covering Europe, such as breaking news on economic data …
Discussion: SAI
Jonathan Glick / The Wire:
The News Article Is Breaking Up  —  Mobile technology is pulling apart the centuries-old format of the article.  News and analysis are getting a divorce.  —  On smartphones, through which the vast majority of the world's population will get their news, people love succinct and scannable information.
Discussion: BuzzMachine and SAI
 
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Gary Marcus / Marcus on AI:
Apple AI researchers say they found no evidence of formal reasoning in language models and their behavior is better explained by sophisticated pattern matching

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Matt Mullenweg says WordPress is “forking” Advanced Custom Fields, a plugin developed by WP Engine; ACF team says the plugin was taken away “without consent”

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