Former New York Times Editor: “Hillary Clinton Is Fundamentally Honest”
Jill Abramson, the former executive editor of The New York Times, weighs in on Hillary Clinton’s ongoing struggle to appear honest and trustworthy:
NYT Writer Says He Was Fired for Observing That Barry Diller Is Gay
Former New York Times Magazine writer Andrew Goldman is accusing the paper
of firing him for asking impertinent questions of a Times advertiser. Goldman, who publicly scuffled with author Jennifer Weiner over accusations of misogyny in 2012, says in a new documentary that the Times canned him for asking fashion…
Book Publisher Makes $1 Million Charitable Donation to Jill Abramson
Jill Abramson, who was unceremoniously ousted last year as editor of the New York Times, has signed a $1 million book deal. Her book's topic will be "the future of media in a rapidly changing world." This development can be interpreted as folly, or farce.
A Million Dollars For Writers--While Supplies Last!
Abruptly deposed former New York Times editor Jill Abramson is teaming up with Steven Brill to start a publication that has **one million dollars** to give to writers just like you in the coming year alone. How can you get your piece?
Ousted New York Times editor Jill Abramson is joining the faculty of Harvard University, her alma mater, as a visiting lecturer in non-fiction narrative journalism. Like every Harvard graduate, Abramson has the school’s crimson “H” logo tattooed on her back.
Why Jill Abramson Was Fired, Per The "National Center for Men"
Today, Richard Johnson of Page Six published a column on Jill Abramson's firing from the New York Times last week. It's very brief, summed up almost entirely in his first paragraph:
How The New York Times Eats Its Own
The New York Times does not like gossip, especially gossip about The New York Times.
Ira Glass Doesn't Know or Care About Jill Abramson's Firing
And now for a completely different take on a story that anyone who's ever ingested a piece of media is expected to have an opinion on: New York asked This American Life host Ira Glass about Jill Abramson being fired from the New York Times, and he was like, "What? Who? Who cares?"
Jill Abramson at Wake Forest: "What’s Next for Me? I Don’t Know!"
During her commencement speech at Wake Forest's graduation ceremony this morning, Jill Abramson addressed her recent firing as Executive Editor of the New York Times, comparing her current position to that of many of the graduating students.
New York Times: Female Staffers Don’t Want “Special Treatment”
New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. is denying the “shallow and factually incorrect” allegations that the paper’s executive editor, Jill Abramson, was fired over her complaints that she was paid less than her male colleagues. Women at the Times, Sulzberger argues in a memo to Times staffers on Saturday,…
Call For Tips: What The Fuck Is Going On at The New York Times?
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The Sexism Surrounding Jill Abramson's Firing
Yesterday, when Arthur Sulzberger announced to the Times staff that he'd fired editor-in-chief Jill Abramson, he reportedly told the staff something like, "When women get to top management positions, they are sometimes fired, just as men are." A lot of the women I know who have similar professional ambitions to mine…
In a staff memo obtained by The Huffington Post, New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. addresses “misinformation” about executive editor Jill Abramson’s firing: “It is simply not true that Jill's compensation was significantly less than her predecessors.”
The New York Times Is Run by a Human PR Disaster
The New York Times, and in particular its publisher, Pinch "Pinch" Sulzberger Jr., is taking a lot of flack for abruptly firing editor Jill Abramson yesterday. Amid the uproar, let's not forget to criticize Sulzberger for this: had it been handled differently, there might not be all this criticism.
Ravi Somaiya and David Carr of the New York Times report that executive editor Jill Abramson’s departure was prompted, in part, by her attempt to recruit top Guardian editor Janine Gibson to serve alongside then-managing editor Dean Baquet without consulting Baquet himself.
New York Times Keeps Changing Story About Jill Abramson’s Salary
Was ousted New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson paid less than her predecessor, Bill Keller, and other male colleagues who held lesser titles at the paper? The Times has several different answers.
Ken Auletta of The New Yorker reports that, “several weeks ago,” fired New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson “discovered that her pay and her pension benefits as both executive editor and, before that, managing editor, were considerably less than the pay and pension benefits of Bill Keller, the male editor…
Executive Editor Jill Abramson Is Out at The New York Times
New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson is stepping down, Politico reports. Dean Baquet, the paper’s managing editor, has been chosen to replace her. Abramson, a 17-year Times staffer, succeeded Bill Keller as executive editor in September 2011, becoming the first woman to do so. Her successor, Baquet, will be…
New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson tells Employee of the Month host Catie Lazarus* that she has two back tattoos: Her newspaper’s “T” insignia and “a Crimson Harvard ‘H,’” both of which represent “the two institutions that I revere, that have shaped me.”
Jill Abramson Lives in a Glass House of Horse Race Politics Coverage
In an interview this past weekend, New York Times editor Jill Abramson decried THE POLITICO-style coverage of politics, in which "the political maneuvering becomes the dominant thread and what is lost is what effect it actually has on people." In a story yesterday about the US commando raids in Libya, her own paper…
