Times sacks exec editor over style of management
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NEW York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr has provided a fresh defense of his removal of executive editor Jill Abramson, saying it had nothing to do with his company’s treatment of women but with Abramson’s management style.
She was the paper’s first female executive editor. The Times replaced Abramson, 60, last Wednesday and promoted managing editor Dean Baquet, 57, to executive editor.
“During her tenure, I heard repeatedly from her newsroom colleagues, women and men, about a series of issues, including arbitrary decision-making, a failure to consult and bring colleagues with her, inadequate communication and the public mistreatment of colleagues,” Sulzberger, who also chairs the Times parent company, said in a statement on Saturday.
“The saddest outcome” of the decision, he said, is that many have cast it as an example of unequal treatment of women. He denied that Abramson’s compensation package was less than her predecessor’s. Abramson was named executive editor in September 2011, replacing Bill Keller.
“Jill’s pay package was comparable with Bill Keller’s; in fact, by her last full year as executive editor, it was more than 10 percent higher than his,” he wrote.
Abramson has yet to comment publicly. No one answered her home phone on Saturday, and she did not immediately respond to a LinkedIn message.
In a blog post on Wednesday, New Yorker staff writer Ken Auletta quoted an anonymous “close associate” who said Abramson confronted the Times’ leaders about her pay after discovering both her pay and her pension benefits were below Keller’s.
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