All posts tagged "Jill Abramson"

Jill Abramson, the former executive editor of The New York Times, delivers a commencement address to Wake Forest University. Watch live video, courtesy of NBC News, below.

Last Tuesday morning, two brilliant female journalists commanded two of the world's greatest newspapers. By Wednesday evening, they were both history. Natalie Nougayrède, overthrown by a senior staff revolt, left the editor's chair at Le Monde. And Jill Abramson, executive editor of the New York Times, was out in a trice, too – sacked, brushed away, her name erased from the paper's masthead with a ruthlessness Kim Jong-Il might have envied.

The New York Times on Wednesday replaced its first female executive editor, Jill Abramson, with its managing editor Dean Baquet, who becomes the first African American to hold the post.

You may have heard by now that Politico media reporter Dylan Byers is under fire for a profile of New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson in which anonymous staffers complain that she's not particularly cuddly, that she doesn't try to make them all her friends and occasionally acts like a boss generally acts -- and which Byers manages to repeat while missing the part where most of the critiques are gender essentializing (i.e., sexist).