Posted on 05/18/2014 6:51:47 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger fired executive editor Jill Abramson after concluding that she had misled both him and chief executive Mark Thompson during her effort to hire a new co-managing editor, according to two sources with knowledge of the reason for her termination.
While several factors contributed to Sulzbergers frustration with Abramsons management of the newsroom, the sources, who are sympathetic to the Times management, said it was this incident that sealed her fate.
In conversations and emails, Abramson led both Sulzberger and Thompson to believe that she had consulted with other newsroom leaders about her decision to offer The Guardians Janine Gibson a job as co-managing editor, the sources said. Specifically, they said she implied that both Dean Baquet, her managing editor, and Janet Elder, the deputy managing editor responsible for newsroom resources and staff development, had been informed and were on board with the plan.
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I would think she would be happy to be free from “job lock”. Now she can go and pursue her creative side.
He’s rich enough to own both.
This woman co wrote a nasty book on Clarence Thomas.
A fitting ending for her high profile job.
She was incompetent and replaced by a minority male.
What goes around comes around.
If Abramson was as cavalier as described, she had no business being promoted to the post in the first place. If Pinch was as unaware as described, he's out of touch with the organization he's ultimately responsible for running.
The Times comes off as a place that is run by personalities committed to their own goals, not professional managers committed to the product.
I doubt any of this comes as a surprise to any objective Times watcher...
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