The Carney-Baquet Amazon v. Times Carping Continues …

The latest from Erik Wemple is on why Amazon made the unusual decision to publicly flame an ex-employee. The whole debate between Jay Carney (Amazon PR) versus Dean Baquet (New York Times editor) lived exclusively on Medium.

Brad Delong on the future of the NY Times

If Dean Baquet wants there to be a New York Times in twenty years, I think he should (a) slim down the current newroom by twenty slots, and (b) give David Leonhardt the money to boost The Upshot’s staff by twenty. — J. Bradford Delong, No, I Do Not Believe…

New York Times to buy Gawker?

Not that anyone actually believes the rumors…but here’s a little preview of what it might look like.