Link Round Up: The Only Things You Need to Read About Jill Abramson and the NYT

Are you exhausted, too? It's been over a week and I finally stopped reading every piece of commentary, reporting, and bloviating over Jill Abramson's termination and the general mess over at the New York Times. How many keys have been clicked over the fate of equal pay and digital innovation? How many hours thumbing through a Twitter feed? A lot. Luckily for you, whether you can't stop obsessing over it or were too swamped to care, I managed to find a few gems. Here are the must reads so you can hold your end of a conversation on the matter at your Memorial Day barbeque with all your media minded friends (because you know everyone you know works in the biz, too, right?). Mathew Ingram over at GigaOM always has good insight on all things digital and in this piece he manages to see a bigger problem below the noise about the executive changes over at the Grey Lady. Conclusion? The Times' problems are real, and Baquet likes print a little too much. Now is not the time for nostalgia. Here's hoping. And then there was solidarity and humor. Another self described "bossy lady," Kara Swisher, penned a post last weekend about what it means to be a "pushy" woman in media and how the Times bungled the whole ordeal. And this: Let me see if I can say it more simply than Sulzberger: She was a real pain in my ass and so she had to go. I can relate, to say the least. As one of the few top editors in tech journalism who is a woman and, even from my many years of reporting before that, I cannot tell you the number of times that I have been called a pain in the ass for my aggressive manner. Silly me, but that kind of tonality is exactly what makes for a successful journalist — you know, afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted — and what is more often than not needed in the sometimes rough-and-tumble world of media. Newly appointed editor over at Fusion Margarita Noriega had a reaction similar to mine -- and even if you're sick of reading about Abramson, this (and all of her tweets and tiny posts) are required reading if you want to be my friend. "Hey media, get a clue," sums everything up. And has good Larry David GIFs. Lastly, if you insist on delving into it (which is probably a decent idea), read only the analysis by Ken Doctor and the summary of that leaked (printed!) innovation report over at Nieman Lab. Your welcome. I'm going to take a much needed unofficial start of summer weekend break from Twitter and the future of digital newsrooms, now. I've had enough. Image via The Cut

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Link Round Up: The Only Things You Need to Read About Jill Abramson and the NYT

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