The New York Times Just Fired One Successful Editor

[DonCoquixote]

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2014/05/14/the_times_fires_jill_abramson_bad_move_gray_lady.html


If this is half true, the NYT should be treated like a fishwrap.

[Cha]

1. I hope Jill Abramson gets Just Resolution..

[elleng]

2. This is discussed on Charlie Rose show tonight.

[TheNutcracker]

3. If the ERA was smart they would contact her.

[ballyhoo]

4. It will be by me. I will never read it or anything

in it again and advise a whole bunch of people to do the same.

[frazzled]

5. And I must say ...

the Times's digital remake a few months back, under Jill Abramson's watch, was the best improvement of any newspaper website I've ever seen. It propelled the digital version of the Times about a thousand miles forward. Then they fire her.

[DonCoquixote]

6. I will raise you

In an age where people were doubting newspapers would survive the digital age, she proved the Times can survive. Now watch someone get the paper and crash it into the ground so that Murdoch could buy it!