New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson unexpectedly left her position on Wednesday, the newspaper announced.
“I’ve loved my run at The Times,” Abramson said in a statement. “I got to work with the best journalists in the world doing so much stand-up journalism.”
Abramson served as the first woman in the executive editor position at the Times. She is being replaced by managing editor Dean Baquet, who will be the newspaper’s first black executive editor.
A Times reporter tweeted that the newspaper’s publisher, Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., attributed the change to a management issue:
The change was attributed, by Arthur Sulzberger Jr, to “an issue with management in the newsroom”. No further details yet.
— Ravi Somaiya (@ravisomaiya) May 14, 2014
Dean Baquet
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I don’t recall any NYT fuck-ups that were any worse than all of their fuck-ups in the lead-up to the Iraq war.
Any guesses as to what she did wrong?
Dear NYTimes,
If you’re going to “suddenly replace” someone, it should have been Maureen Dowd, who’s been writing the same column about Obama for 6+ years at this point. Her column is a waste of valuable real estate.
Signed,
A former subscriber
Maybe she’s moving on to be the executive editor of The Intercept?
i’d like to add david brooks, ross asshat and the enormous moustache of understanding.