With all the worries about the founded or unfounded role of sexism in Jill Abramson’s firing from The New York Times, it’s worth remembering the very well documented way that gender discrimination plays out on the opinion pages of major publications. Recently both the Women’s Media Center and VIDA: Women in Literary Arts released their…
Getty Images Much of the conversation surrounding the dismissal of Jill Abramson from her post as editor of the New York Times is about how she was punished for “acting like a man.” We really need to stop saying that. “They are paid less, given fewer promotions and it’s held against them when they act…
(Reuters) — Ousted New York Times editor Jill Abramson struck a defiant note in her first public remarks since the newspaper fired her, urging a group of university graduates to fight back in the face of adversity. “Some of you, and now I’m talking to anybody who has been dumped … You know the sting…
The New York Times’ ousted top editor Jill Abramson will have a chance on Monday to address the unusually scathing criticisms of her management style leveled by publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. when she makes her first public remarks since she was fired. But it is unclear whether Abramson, who was the first woman to lead…
New York Times Co publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. on Saturday denied the ouster of top editor Jill Abramson was due to gender bias and listed ways in which she was a bad manager. Sulzberger issued a statement that identified a pattern of behavior including “arbitrary decision-making, a failure to consult and bring colleagues with her,…
Getty Images The media world, and particularly its women, were scandalized by the abrupt ouster of former New York Times Executive Editor Jill Abramson, the first female to hold the position, and her replacement by Dean Baquet, who as of yesterday is the first African-American in the spot. It was a sudden and rather undignified…
(Reuters) — The New York Times Co on Wednesday abruptly ousted the newspaper’s top editor, Jill Abramson, after less than three years in the job and named managing editor Dean Baquet to replace her. Baquet, 57, a Pulitzer prize-winning reporter and former editor of the Los Angeles Times, becomes the paper’s first African-American editor. Abramson,…
Let me be clear. I am well aware of the fact that, for Americans and especially for people from New York, having a famous whatever with Jewish connections is not such a big deal, considering the impact of Jewish population in the cultural, political and intellectual life of the country. In Italy we are not…
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