Jill Abramson out at New York Times, Dean Baquet will lead

Poynter ^ | May 14, 2014 | Andrew Beaujon

[abb]

Jill Abramson “is unexpectedly leaving the position” as executive editor of The New York Times, the Times announced Wednesday. Dean Baquet will be the new executive editor, Ravi Somaiya reports. “The reasons for the switch were not immediately clear,” Somaiya reports. Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. attributed the change to “an issue with management in the newsroom,” Somaiya wrote on Twitter.

Abramson became the Times’ executive editor in 2011. She is five years away from being 65, the age at which Times executive editors traditionally must retire. On Monday Times Public Editor Margaret Sullivan noted that under Abramson, “not only is the top editor a woman – the first — but many department heads and section editors are, too.”

[abb]

This just in.

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[GeronL]

How long before its down to 8 pages a day like the old old days?

[Mouton]

She is five years away from being 65

NO pension for you.

[abb]

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/15/business/media/jill-abramson-being-replaced-as-top-editor-at-times.html

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/dean-baquet-named-executive-editor-of-the-new-york-times-2014-05-14?reflink=MW_news_stmp

https://twitter.com/dgelles/statuses/466648558134116352

http://investors.nytco.com/press/press-releases/press-release-details/2014/Dean-Baquet-Named-Executive-Editor-of-The-New-York-Times/default.aspx

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/05/jill-abramson-out-at-new-york-times.html

[Constitution Day]

War on women!

[ClearCase_guy]

War on women continues.

[clintonh8r]

War on Women!

[abb]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/14/jill-abramson-dean-baquet-new-york-times_n_5325138.html?utm_hp_ref=media

[Izzy Dunne]

She just now realized that being a malarkey salesperson wasn’t really her thing.

[abb]

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/08/business/media/08paper.html?pagewanted=all

November 8, 2006
Los Angeles Paper Ousts Top Editor
By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE

Dean Baquet, the editor of The Los Angeles Times, who defied orders from his corporate bosses to cut jobs, was forced out of his own job yesterday, shocking the newsroom just as it was gearing up to cover election returns.

[blueunicorn6]

This is so when the goods come out on the Democrats and the press they can say, “Yeah, but that was her.”

[Timber Rattler]

From NY Mag:

Baquet will be the first African American to lead the paper.

Race trumps gender.

[livius]

Well, you can’t sell a national newspaper by pitching it only to the Upper West Side. Don’t get me wrong, I grew up there and I love it, although the bizarre attitudes often drive me crazy.

But the Times has got to move on.

[Sgt_Schultze]

Is this the guy responsible for withholding some type of incriminating recording of obama?

[Wyatt's Torch]

He better watch over his shoulder for a lesbian black chick in a wheelchair. That’s the diversity superfecta.

[abb]

He left the LA Times in 2006. I don’t recall who withheld the info.

[canuck_conservative]

“The reasons for the switch were not immediately clear,”

The NY times has award-winning investigative journalists, all the players in the drama are within their own building, and The Times STILL can't figure out what's going on?

Times is incompetent.

(Of course, everyone knows this is what happens when you criticise Obama. Abramson clearly had to be eliminated.)

[GeronL]

These awesome journalists cannot even understand what is happening in their own offices or orifices.

[libstripper]

Proof that even the mighty cannot INSULT THE GREAT MAHDI. Only a few days ago, Jill, a lib's lib, committed SACRILEGE when she said the Mahdi's Regime was the least transparent she'd known while she was in the news business. And they fired her, not even letting her resign.