"I can assure you that no woman will ever be an editor at the New York Times." Clifton Daniel, then a top Times editor, reportedly said that in a 1961 interview with Eileen Shanahan, the first female reporter in the Times Washington bureau, as Poynter's Jim Romanesco points out. Neither Daniel nor Shanahan are around to eat crow or celebrate now that Jill Abramson has in fact taken on that role. "But I'm extremely conscious that I stand on the shoulders of women," Abramson said. Part of her debt is to the women who sued the Times …

You know how NBC used to hold back tape of marquee events so they could run first in prime time? Well, that practice -- which once made sense but no longer does in the age of the Internet and social media broadcasting sports results in real time -- should end with the next Olympics broadcast. That's when the company will "make every event available on one platform or another" as it happens, according to reports cited by Gigaom's Ryan Lawlor.However, "while the ability to watch live streams of Olympic events will be a welcome addition for viewers, it's likely to …

"Minority children spend an average of 13 hours a day using mobile devices, computers, TVs and other media - about 4½ hours more than white kids," begins this USA Today story reporting on a Northwestern University study analyzing two Kaiser Family Foundation surveys.Among the group of eight- to 18-year-olds tracked, Asian Americans logged the most media use, followed by Hispanics, African Americans and whites.

Two years from now, 75% of TV content will be available on every possible screen from PCs to mobile devices, agreed executives from Disney, Turner, and Comcast in a panel yesterday. Also part of the forecast: by 2013 "the networks will be almost completely agnostic about where and when their video content is being viewed," Adweek reports.

Bloomberg quotes several unnamed sources ("a person with knowledge of the sales"; "another person") on how upfront sales are proceeding. Lower-ranked broadcast nets NBC and ABC are both close to wrapping up, with NBC averaging 9% rate increases, ABC 10% to 11%. Fox had received commitments for about 80% of its inventory by last Thursday, and CBS was still selling as of last Friday.

Time Warner is reportedly offering between $30 million and $35 million to buy the U.S. version of OK magazine from U.K. publisher Richard Desmond, according to Sky News. The celebrity news pub would fit well with another Time Inc. property, People magazine, which is also celebrity-oriented but targeted to an older audience.

Gigaom's Mathew Ingram argues that the paywalls newspapers implement for online content still don't work. "The biggest flaw from a business perspective, particularly for smaller newspapers, is that walling up your content is an invitation to free competitors...to come and take away your readers," he writes.For larger papers like the New York Times, the revenue generated will probably be equal to the ad dollars lost from a reduction of page views, Ingram notes. So with zero-sum accounting, "in most cases, these walls are likely to be driven by the same rationale that Rupert Murdoch used in launching paywalls at two …

Keith Olbermann is always entertaining and outspoken, and this Hollywood Reporter interview is no exception. He talks about his new salary at Current TV, $10 million -- a fairly substantial raise from his former $7 mil paycheck. He also explains why, exactly, he was booted from MSNBC. The precipitating infraction was, he says, "gossiping about [Jeff] Zucker's fate at the company after Comcast had announced its bid to merge with NBCUniversal."

According to a deal it just signed off on today, Comcast, NBC's new parent company, won the bid for the next four Olympics games up for contention: the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro, and the next two Olympics, whose host cities have not yet been chosen.

Glamour magazine, traditionally Conde Nast's newsstand best seller, is facing a dip of 17% in newsstand sales through the first four months of 2011, while its competition of other top women's pubs is mostly up slightly, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations Rapid Report.Glamour editor Cindi Leive says she and her staff are on the case, working on fine-tuning cover subjects (best-selling covers now feature reality stars like Lauren Conrad instead of movie stars), layouts and copy.