“She was reading the New York Times before she could transfer to a bottle,”Gail Sheehy said of Jill Abramson, at the July 15 reception she hosted at her Manhattan duplex for the former executive editor of The New York Times. Author of 16 books — including megahit “Passages,” Sheehy touted Abramson as “among the first…
Arthur Gelb, the New York Times managing editor whose arts sensibility and journalistic vigor molded the paper for decades, died Tuesday at age 90 of complications from a stroke, his son said. The veteran newsman reportedly died in New York. Son Peter Gelb told the Times his father died of complications of a stroke. Arthur…
It even has a name now. Abramson-gate. The abrupt firing of Jill Abramson as executive editor of The New York Times, and the unfolding public relations disaster for one of journalism’s premier brands is a story of unending fascination for media mavens and for those who like to see the mighty mess up. But Abramson-gate…
New York Times Co Chairman and Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. said he tried to part ways peacefully with the top leader of the newsroom, Jill Abramson, whom he ousted last week. “We originally drafted the whole thing to be very amicable,” Sulzberger said in an interview with Vanity Fair, his first since he changed the…
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,…
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