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One problem with being The New York Times—big, lumbering, important—is that you sometimes get in your own way. It happens even when you cover the movies. Every now and then, you find yourself looking at a picture that’s looking at you. And that can be awkward.

Just such a moment is pending, as The Times prepares to deal with She Said, Maria Schrader’s film about the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation of Harvey Weinstein and sex abuse by two of its reporters, Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey.

That was a proud enterprise for the paper, the kind of reporting it’s supposed to do. But past triumph won’t make it any easier for the Times‘ critics and cultural reporters to cover the film when Universal unveils it at the New York Film Festival on Oct. 13, at a world premiere that will find their two colleagues on-stage with the actresses who portray them,...

Four years after Hillary Clinton lost her final bid for the White House—even though she won the popular vote—there remains a lot of melancholic reflection about “what if” among her most dedicated supporters. Heck, there’s a lot of second-guessing, too, among some of her harshest critics with the current occupant of the Oval Office fumbling the development of a national strategy to deal with the coronavirus pandemic. So the prospect of a potential Rodham television series, and the alternate version of history it intends to offer, may appear to be a respite. With that said, it aims to rewrite the history of more than just the last four years.

Less than five months after Hulu saw success in their docuseries Hillary, which detailed what went wrong during the 2016 presidential campaign, the streaming service has optioned the rights to Rodham, an alternative history biography by Curtis Sittenfeld that...

One of the undeniable stars of “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” is named neither DiCaprio nor Pitt, but rather Brandy. She’s the pitbull terrier who kicks ass when it matters, and is otherwise patient and obedient. Most important, she adds a sweetly human counterpoint to her owner’s occasionally temperamental ways. Quentin Tarantino’s movie is retro, so the concept of a helpful and heroic dog is fitting.

Let’s face it: Brandy’s obedience to a male has a lot of company on screens past… and present. “The Art of Racing in the Rain” opens Friday, featuring “This Is Us” star Milo Ventimiglia as a racecar driver whose ups and downs are narrated by his canine companion (voiced by Kevin Costner). The film’s ads read, “From the studio that brought you ‘Marley and Me.'” Yep, there is another one primarily about a guy and his pooch.

Al Franken’s name once again trended on social media Monday thanks to a lengthy profile on the former Minnesota Senator by Jane Mayer in The New Yorker.

The story, which runs more than 12,000 words, features an extensive interview with Franken. The former writer and performer on Saturday Night Live reflects on having to resign from his U.S. Senate seat in December 2017, after several accusations of inappropriate physical contact with women.

Mayer’s own Twitter tease for her story sums up her feelings on the matter: “How @alfranken got railroaded,” she wrote before linking to the piece.

“I don’t think people who have been sexually assaulted, and those kinds of things, want to hear from people who have been #MeToo’d that they’re victims,” Franken, 68, tells Mayer.

Having suffered a deep clinical depression in the aftermath of the case, he recalled that his therapist compared the experience to...

The New York Times on Wednesday deleted several tweets from its Wordplay Twitter account that rebuked a user for “putting people in danger” after the user joked that people who can complete the paper’s crossword puzzle are allowed “to execute one pundit of your choice.”

“We’ve deleted some tweets from yesterday that were against our social media guidelines for the newsroom,” read a terse statement from the @NYTimesWordplay account.

Reps for the Times declined to comment, but the tweets were deleted minutes after an inquiry from TheWrap about the NYTimes Wordplay account’s original series of tweets complaining to a Twitter user with the handle “a paw stamping on a human face forever” about the tweets: “Your ‘joke’ is putting real people’s lives in danger. Do you also yell ‘Fire!’ in theaters?”

Also Read: Vice Reporter Accuses Ex-New York Times Editor Jill Abramson of Plagiarism

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Last Wednesday, I was on assignment at a high school basketball game in Chicago’s north suburbs, conducting interviews for a magazine profile about one of the nation’s top young recruits, when I received a startling text message from a fellow journalist: “Jill Abramson bit from one of your stories.”

In disbelief, I pulled up Twitter, where Vice News correspondent Michael C. Moynihan had just revealed his findings: In her new book Merchants of Truth, Abramson, the former executive editor of the New York Times, had apparently plagiarized from several sources.

In 2008, Jill Abramson, the then-managing editor of the New York Times, had the unfortunate task of responding to accusations that a Times reporter had plagiarized two sentences from a Miami Herald article about the illicit drug ‘paco.’ Save for a few minor differences, the sentences were almost verbatim, and according to Abramson, “when you take material almost word-for-word and don’t credit it, it is [plagiarism].”

More than a decade later, Abramson doesn’t “see it that way,” appearing on CNN on February 10th to refute allegations that her new book,...

Whether or not they watch Fox News Channel regularly, a lot of people talk about its primetime hosts: Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham and Tucker Carlson. Now executives at the network hope to spark new conversation about its news anchors, like Martha MacCallum, Bret Baier and Chris Wallace.

The cable-news outlet this week is reaching out to Madison Avenue with a marketing effort that aims to remind advertisers and media buyers about how well-watched the network’s programming is and how much people talk about it. A new marketing slogan, “America Is Watching,” has been trademarked and a map of the United States has been created showing that no matter whether the region tilts red or blue politically, Fox News is the most-watched cable-news outlet there – pressing against the notion that the network is only for conservatives. Fox News will highlight that theory in ads placed around New York. The network...

Former New York Times editor Jill Abramson admitted today that several passages in her new book, Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts, might contain passages that substantially mimic the language found in other sources.

Abramson has been under fire after a Wednesday night report from Vice News outlined that some of her book’s passages seemed to be taken from other sources. The accusations were made in a series of tweets by reporter Michael Moynihan. Vice News is one of four news organizations Abramson studied in the book.

She responded today in a statement issued through her publisher, Simon & Schuster.

“I was up all night going through my book because I take these claims of plagiarism so seriously,” she said. “I tried above all to accurately and properly give attribution to the many hundreds of sources that were part of my research.”

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Photographed pages from early copies of Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts, former New York Times Executive Editor Jill Abramson’s forthcoming book about the changing industry of journalism, circulated the internet this week, revealing several errors and inaccuracies.

There were small, easy-to-correct errors, like saying that Charlottesville is in North Carolina, rather than Virginia. But greater concern was raised about an apparent bias against so-called “new media,” especially Vice News, with facts skewed to make young, digital journalists appear inept next to their...

The South by Southwest Conference and Festival have unveiled an additional list of names added to its keynote and featured speaker lineup. Actress Olivia Wilde is among names announced today as part of the Keynote speakers along with Endeavor Chief Marketing Officer Bozoma Saint John and Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger.

The trio joins previously announced keynote speakers Jessica Brillhart, Joseph Lubin, Shirley Manson, Lauren Mayberry, Marti Noxon, and Kevin Systrom with Josh Constine.

For featured speaker slots, the Austin-based fest has added DreamWorks Animation co-founder, WndrCo co-founder, and Quibi founder and chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg, Emmy winning Barry star Henry Winkler, who will be conducting an acting workshop, filmmaker Cameron Crowe, A$AP Rocky; Emmy winner and Better Things star Pamela Adlon, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, American Gods author and showrunner of the upcoming Amazon series Good Omens Neil Gaiman,, among others.

The SXSW Conference, which will run from March 8-17, is...

With apologies to the late comedian Billy DeWolfe, President Donald Trump has been “busy, busy, busy” this morning on Twitter.

The Commander-in-Tweet has been on the attack against the usual suspects in an unusually heavy flurry of early posts. His targets included some boilerplate complaints against the Democrats and the fake media.

But surprisingly, he called out former President Barack Obama for past campaign violations, mounting a defense of his own alleged actions in that sector. He also had some nice words for Kanye West, who affirmed his support of the president in recent statements.

The tweetstorm so far:

How do you impeach a president who has won perhaps the greatest election of all time, done nothing wrong, had the most successful first two years of any president, and is the most popular Republican in party history 93%?

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Former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson had some sharp words for the paper and her successor, Dean Baquet, saying in her new book, “Merchants of Truth,” that under his stewardship that the Times had become an “anti-Trump” paper.

“Though Baquet said publicly he didn’t want the Times to be the opposition party, his news pages were unmistakably anti-Trump,” Abramson said according to an excerpt obtained by Fox News. “Some headlines contained raw opinion, as did some of the stories that were labeled as news analysis.”

In the book, Abramson also said that the paper’s subscription growth during the Trump era was largely a result of catering to readers who were looking for an opposition voice.

Also Read: Joe Scarborough Doubts Trump N-Word Tape Exists: 'He Did Not Say Racially Insensitive Things' When I Knew Him

“Given its mostly liberal audience, there was an implicit financial reward...

As Salesforce.com founder Marc Benioff and his wife, Lynne, prepare to close their $190 million acquisition of Time Magazine, they joins an ever-expanding club of tech and other non-media billionaires who have decided to dabble in owning legacy media brands.

From Jeff Bezos at the Washington Post to Laurene Powell Jobs at The Atlantic to Patrick Soon-Shiong at the Los Angeles Times to Facebook veteran Chris Hughes at The New Republic, tech moguls have been trying their luck at one of America’s toughest businesses — with mixed success so far.

While some industry experts seem optimism for the new wave of investment in media outlets, others warned that billionaires who made their fortune outside of media may never be able to separate their personal interests from the coverage — or find a sustainable business model in a challenging industry despite their previous success.

“It depends on the billionaire,” Washington Post media...

We appear to have at least one liar on the Supreme Court. In 1991, Clarence Thomas repeatedly said “No, senator” when asked if he’d done any of the things that Anita Hill alleged: bragging about his penis, his sexual prowess, making specific references to pornographic films and so forth. He added, “If I used that kind of grotesque language with one person, it would seem to me that there would be traces of it throughout the employees who worked closely with me, there would be other individuals who heard it,...

Former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson laced into her former employer on Wednesday, chiding the paper’s current leadership for not picking up on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez before her upset primary victory over longtime Democratic Rep. Joe Crowley.

“Kind of pisses me off that @nytimes is still asking Who Is Ocasio-Cortez? when it should have covered her campaign,” she said. “Missing her rise akin to not seeing Trump’s win coming in 2016.”

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Kind of pisses me off that @nytimes is still asking Who Is Ocasio-Cortez? when it should have covered her campaign. Missing her rise akin to not seeing Trump's win coming in 2016.

— Jill Abramson (@JillAbramson) June 27, 2018

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Abramson shared her thoughts with a tweet of a lengthy explainer of Ocasio-Cortez, published by the Times, after her win.

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Gender diversity at The New York Times has made a steady decline with women highly underrepresented at the highest tiers of power, according to the paper’s public editor, Liz Spayd. “Women have skidded down the power structure since Jill Abramson was dismissed as executive editor three years ago, with fewer females leading big news departments and fewer coming up the pipeline,” Spayd wrote in an article on Saturday. “Thus, fewer women decide what big stories are assigned, what broad coverage priorities are set, and what a re-envisioned Times should look like.” Although women have been added to masthead in recent weeks.

The New York Times issued a correction Sunday for improperly using Jewish terms “yenta” and “shiva” in a story. The Mar. 13 article “For Nice Jewish Guys, Swipe Right” depicts 23-year-old Jordan Rodman paying her respects at a Shiva — a Jewish gathering to mourn the dead — when her dating life became a hot topic of conversation. The article delves into the Jewish dating app “JSwipe,” which mimics Tinder in letting users swipe right or left to approve a potential match or dismiss them. Also Read: Inside New York Times Chaotic Layoffs, How Jill Abramson Exit Hurt Female Staffers Apparently, The Times confused both the terms Shiva.

Zanny Minton Beddoes will take the reins from John Micklethwait on Feb. 2

The Economist has appointed Zanny Minton Beddoes as its new editor, marking the first time that a woman will hold the position since the magazine began publishing in 1843.

Beddoes, who will be the magazine’s 17th editor, will replace John Micklethwait, who’s held the position for nine years. She will assume the new role Feb. 2.

Also Read: Salman Rushdie on Charlie Hebdo Journalists: Our Dead Comrades Have Been Vilified, Called Racists

Beddoes has been with the Economist since 1994 and currently serves as the business affairs editor. Prior to joining the magazine,...

Jill Abramson is planning a startup with journalism entrepreneur Steven Brill. The fired New York Times editor revealed her plans during an interview on NPR's “Wbur Live,” according to the show's tweets. According to the program, Abramson says she has been pitching the venture and investors “sound very interested.” See photos: New York Times Editor Jill Abramson Profile Leads to Unflattering Photos of Jill Abramson As for the partnership with Brill, Abramson said, “He and I will be doing one big story a year.” More details may arrive Tuesday when Wbur Live releases video of the interview. Abramson regards Brill as an early journalism mentor.

During her New York Times tenure, Jill Abramson was summoned to a secret meeting with George Bush's then-Secretary of State Condeleezza Rice. In an interview with “60 Minutes” that aired Sunday, Abramson recounted being asked by Rice to not publish a story by reporter James Risen about a botched CIA mission to thwart Iran's nuclear program. Rice asked Abramson to come to the meeting without Risen. Also read: Fired Nyt Editor Jill Abramson Says She Never Saw It Coming (Video) “She barely looked up,” Abramson told CBS’ Leslie Stahl. “She basically read in a very stern manner from her notes on this legal.

Jody Gerson has been named chairman and chief executive officer of Universal Music Publishing Group. The appointment is effective Jan. 1, 2015. Gerson, who currently serves as Co-President of Sony/Atv Publishing, will succeed Zach Horowitz, who has decided to step down effective immediately, according to a press release. See video: Fired Nyt Editor Jill Abramson Says She Never Saw It Coming In making the announcement, Umg Chairman and CEO Lucian Grainge — to whom Gerson will report — said, “Jody Gerson is simply one of the best music publishers in the business, and we are thrilled that she will be bringing her creativity,...

Greta Van Susteren sought to rebut what she called a “snooty” Columbia Journalism Review column that accused fired New York Times editor Jill Abramson of seeking interviews with female reporters to build public sympathy. In the Cjr piece Monday, former Washington Post managing editor Elizabeth Spayd said Abramson's “strategy, in case it's not obvious, is to seek out prominent female journalists for a congenial discussion of her ousting, so long as there's no serious discussion of her ousting.” Spayd said Abramson has answered softball questions from women and “mainly dodged male reporters,” adding that female journalists should not give “your.

Bianna Golodryga, a weekend anchor for ABC's “Good Morning America,” is heading to Yahoo News as a news and finance anchor. In doing so, she follows Katie Couric's path from network news to Yahoo. Golodryga, who has co-anchored “Gma” since 2010, will be replaced by ABC correspondent Paula Faris in early August. Golodryga explained the move in a statement, crediting “the opportunity to delve into more detail on topics ranging from Russia to Wall Street and everything in between.” At ABC, Golodryga had interviewed President Clinton and Warren E. Buffett, among others. See video: Jill Abramson Refuses to Engage in ‘Grassy Knoll’ Speculation with.

Fired New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson continued her media tour on Thursday with a sit-down with Katie Couric for Yahoo News, where they rehashed, once again, the details of her ousting from the news organization. This time around, Abramson downplayed the gossip that arose after her firing. When Couric referenced Abramson's former colleague David Carr, who described the newsroom as “Game of Thrones”-like, Abramson shot it down, saying, “Now we're really in the grassy knoll, Katie, and I don't want to jump in there with you… It's a newsroom. Most of the people there are trying to report.

In the first television interview since her very public firing, former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson talked candidly about what she described as the “hurtful situation” on Fox News’ “On the Record w/ Greta Van Susteren.” Abramson said she didn't see the firing coming, though she did admit to what she described as “bumps” and “difficult situations” with her bosses during her tenure as the Times’ top editor. “Yeah. I mean, of course,” Abramson answered Van Susteren's question about whether it's tough to get fired. “It's like a hurtful situation. And my firing was so public, as you just pointed out.

Shortly after she was abruptly fired by The New York Times, Jill Abramson was pictured punching a boxing bag in an Instagram photo that went viral and landed on the cover of the New York Post. In an interview with Cosmopolitan magazine that was posted online Tuesday night, Abramson says she insisted her trainer take a picture of her with her gloves on, but the photo wasn’t for the press — it was for her kids. Photos Sun Valley 2014: Media and Tech Moguls Swap Suits for Leisure Wear at the Allen & Co. Retreat “My kids were upset, and

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Jill Abramson's first interview following her exit from New York Times will be with Greta Van Susteren on Fox News — not with Katie Couric as Yahoo News previously claimed. On Tuesday the online news outlet announced Couric, who is scheduled to interview Abramson Thursday, would be the first to interview her since she was replaced as executive editor in May, but that isn't true. “Van Susteren will interview her on ‘On the Record,'” Fox told TheWrap in a statement, which would be a full day earlier. Also read: Katie Couric to Interview Former New York Times Editor Jill Abramson Abramson was the first.

Greta Van Susteren and Katie Couric have landed the first interviews with former New York Times editor Jill Abramson since she was fired from the newspaper in May. Fox News' Van Susteren will sit down with Abramson for a live interview Wednesday night on her 7 p.m. show, On the Record. Photos 2014 Time Magazine 100 Most Influential People Gala Couric, in her new role as Yahoo News' global anchor, will sit down with Abramson on Thursday. Yahoo News sent out the below tweet about Couric's interview. Thursday, @katiecouric sits down exclusively with former @nytimes exec. editor @JillAbramson. Tweet

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Jill Abramson is finally speaking out about her questionable departure from the New York Times. The former executive editor was fired back in May and on Thursday, July 17 she will sit down with Yahoo News’ Katie Couric to discuss her career at the storied publication, in addition to her well publicized exit. She'll also touch upon a changing media landscape and more general challenges facing women in the workplace. Also read: Katie Couric Marries Financier John Molner in Intimate Ceremony It's Abramson's first interview since her divisive departure, according to Yahoo News. As TheWrap previously reported, numerous journalists, celebrities and similarly maligned women felt Abramson's.

Arthur Gregg Sulzberger will become the newspaper's Senior Editor for Strategy, New York Times, executive editor Dean Baquet announced on Monday. The former editor and reporter gained notice amongst his colleagues when he spearheaded the Times’ Innovation Report, which identified where the paper could improve in its digital operations. Now, in his new role, he will begin to implement the improvements he identified in the report. Also read: Nyt Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Calls Jill Abramson Pay Stories ‘Lies,’ Regrets How Firing Was Handled Sulzberger's new role will see him “aggressively search for the trends and developments in the industry — from the.

Carpetbagger contributor Cara Buckley has been named the column's regular Oscar season blogger by the New York Times. Buckley is succeeding the Times’ former Carpetbagger, Melena Ryzik, who will now shift to focus on general news and features. Now Buckley will be the one tasked with covering the Oscars and movie awards season for the site. See also: New York Times Publisher Denies Jill Abramson's Gender Played Role In Her Firing As the new Carpetbagger, Buckley “will assume the many glorious and exhausting responsibilities involved in covering the Academy Awards for The New York Times,” Nyt culture editor Danielle Mattoon wrote in.

Dean Baquet, the executive editor of The New York Times, announced to staff Monday that he had a cancerous growth removed from his kidney. Baquet, who replaced Jill Abramson after she was fired in May, told the news team that he had ”minimally invasive, completely successful surgery” and would be out of the office for a week. Also read: Glenn Greenwald Slams NY Times, New Editor Dean Baquet Over Jill Abramson Firing He said his prognosis was “excellent” and he would be returning “as soon as possible.” “During my absence, I will be in touch with the newsroom leadership – perhaps more than they.

Boston – Former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson is joining Harvard University as a visiting lecturer this coming school year, the university announced Thursday. Abramson will teach undergraduate courses on narrative nonfiction in the fall and spring semesters, the school said. Audio Gloria Steinem Says Jill Abramson's Nyt Firing Represents 'Huge Double Standard' Abramson, the first-ever female executive editor at the Times, held the post for more than two years before her abrupt dismissal in May. Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. said at the time that Abramson's newsroom management style was the reason for her ouster. He strongly denied

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Jill Abramson, who was ousted as executive editor of the New York Times in May, will become a visiting lecturer in narrative nonfiction for Harvard University in the fall semester, the New York Times reported. Also read: Jill Abramson Says Losing Her NY Times Job Hurt, Unsure What's Next for Her (Video) Abramson's firing caused shockwaves around the media world last month, and in a commencement address at Wake Forest University, she admitted she was hurt by the dismissal. “Sure, losing a job you love hurts,” Abramson told graduating students. “But the work I revere — journalism that holds powerful institutions and people accountable.

The Supreme Court has declined to intervene in the case of James Risen, a New York Times reporter who is facing jail time for refusing to identify a confidential source. In a one-line order Monday, the court turned down Risen's appeal, effectively siding with the government. Federal authorities say they need to know the name of a source for a chapter of his 2006 book “State of War” in order to protect national security. They are trying to prove that Risen's source was former CIA agent Jeffrey Sterling. Also read: Jill Abramson Replaced as New York Times Editor by Dean Baquet The United States.

Dean Baquet, the new executive editor for The New York Times, chimed in on Thursday night about the controversy that has erupted in the wake of his predecessor, Jill Abramson's firing. He was very direct in saying, “I do not believe … that Jill was fired because of gender,” during an interview with NPR. Instead, he said it hinged on failed relationships with her boss and deputies, including him. Also read: Gloria Steinem Speaks Out on Jill Abramson Scandal: ‘It's Obvious That It's a Double Standard’ However, Baquet wouldn't speak more specifically about those failings. “I'm not commenting on Jill's relationship with the.

Gloria Steinem has weighed in on the suggestion that Jill Abramson's firing from the New York Times last week, reportedly due in part to her aggressive behavior, was a case of sexism. Speaking on the weekly radio show from the Women's Media Center that she co-founded, Steinem calls Abramson's firing a "huge double standard," pointing to difficult male editors at The Times. Story: Jill Abramson Says New York Times Firing 'Hurt,' Won't Get Nyt Tattoo Removed "It's obvious it is a double standard -- a huge, huge double standard. We've all known editors of the New York Times.

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Feminist icon Gloria Steinem weighed in on the controversial firing of New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson, calling the situation a “double standard.” Steinem took part in a roundtable discussion on Women's Media Center's weekly radio show Wmc Live with Robin Morgan. When asked about comments decrying Abramson as “difficult” or “brusque,” Steinem was quick to point out that male editors of the Times were even more demanding than Abramson. “It's obvious that it's a double standard, a huge, huge double standard,” Steinem, who is also a co-founder of the Wmc, said. “I mean, we have all known editors of newspapers,...

In case the main thing you’ve been wondering throughout the Jill Abramson–Sulzberger fiasco is, “Did they base the family of Gilmore Girls’ Logan Huntzberger on the Sulzbergers?” the answer is, basically, yes. “Oh, absolutely,” the 2000–'07 show’s creator Amy Sherman-Palladino told Vulture during an interview this morning. “It wasn’t even veiled — the word ‘berger’ is in there. We weren't trying to be clever. We just figured that was the kind of family [Logan] would be part of.”For those of you not still stuck in the early '00s, Logan (who was played by The Good Wife’s Matt Czuchry) was Rory Gilmore's super-rich, delightfully Waspy newspaper scion boyfriend/almost-fiancé. While Sherman-Palladino never met a real live Sulzberger and "can't attest to their personal qualities," she wanted the Huntzbergers to be "a family of newspaper royalty in that vein. And a little, you know, a lot of...

Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr., publisher of The New York Times and chairman of The New York Times Co., says people shouldn’t believe everything they read about Jill Abramson's sudden ouster last week. Sulzberger on Wednesday announced to the Times newsroom that he'd fired the paper's executive editor, who had held the position since 2011, and was replacing her with managing editor Dean Baquet. 2014 NY Media Power List: Jill Abramson, David Carr and A.O. Scott Since then, various media outlets from The New Yorker to Politico have speculated about the real reason Abramson was let go. Sulzberger, meanwhile, been

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New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. fired Jill Abramson because he was afraid to lose managing editor Dean Baquet, he told Vanity Fair in his first interview since the firing. “We risked losing Dean, and we risked losing more than Dean,” Sulzberger said. “It would have been a flood, and a flood of some of our best digital people.” Also read: Jill Abramson Says Losing Her NY Times Job Hurt, Unsure What's Next for Her (Video) Sulzberger also insisted that New Yorker writer Ken Auletta‘s report that Abramson was paid less than her male counterparts was false, and...

Jill Abramson made her first public appearance since being fired as executive editor at the New York Times, giving a commencement address Monday to graduating students at Wake Forest University. “I think the only real news here today is your graduation from this great university,” Abramson said. “First of all, congratulations, I'm impressed that your achievements have attracted so much media attention, as well they should.” Also read: Glenn Greenwald Slams NY Times, New Editor Dean Baquet Over Jill Abramson Firing “Sure, losing a job you love hurts,” Abramson said. “But the work I revere — journalism that holds powerful institutions and people.

Jill Abramson delivered an honest speech to Wake Forest's 2014 graduating class Monday. In her first public appearance since she was, as she put it, "fired" by the New York Times last Wednesday, Abramson preached resilience to those now also uncertain of what they would be doing next. But before she began her remarks, she alluded to the media attention surrounding her speech, joking that it must all be for the graduates. Story: New York Times Columnist Offers Insight Into Jill Abramson's Firing "I think the only real news here today is your graduation from this great university," Abramson

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The New York Times columnist and reporter David Carr on Sunday offered some behind-the-scenes reporting into the firing of executive editor Jill Abramson. The Times on Wednesday announced it was replacing Abramson, who had held the position since 2011, with managing editor Dean Baquet. Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr., the publisher of the paper and the chairman of The New York Times Co., told what a Times report called a "stunned newsroom" the news during a "quickly assembled" meeting. Sulzberger said the decision was due to "an issue with management in the newsroom." 2014 NY Media Power List:

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Jill Abramson gave a commencement speech at Wake Forest University on Monday in which she used her firing at The New York Times to offer a message of solidarity and resilience.

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Abramson, the first woman to hold the title of executive editor of the Times, was rather unceremoniously fired earlier this month. Since then, she has remained virtually silent, allowing the media to weigh in on why the esteemed paper fired her. Many came to the conclusion that it likely had to do with pay, as it was known Abramson was paid less than her male coworkers.

Though Abramson didn’t address the reasoning for her firing from the paper, she did admit that it was painful. “Sure, losing a job you love hurts,” she candidly stated to the Wake Forest class of 2014, adding, “You know the sting of losing. When that happens,...

Rapid fire is the publishing world's new normal, but inspiring long-form content is not a thing of the past. Enter #LongReads: a weekly post containing what we believe to be five of the most compelling pieces of long-form, entertainment-related content circulating around the web. Cannes is just as riveting as it is exhausting - for those attending and those trying to stay up-to-date on the coverage. Our cure for you? Longreads! These five spell-binding pieces should have you reinvigorated in no time: Nellie Bly's Lessons in Writing What You Want to by Alice Gregory Alice Gregory's piece on Nelly Bly for "The New Yorker" is written on the heels of two landmark events in the history of female journalists; the first being last month's publication of a collection of Bly's writings, which marks the first time her writings have been published as a collection; the second being the firing of...

New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. denied on Saturday that sexism played a factor in Jill Abramson's termination as executive editor in a statement that also detailed his decision to fire her. He defended the paper's record on equal pay, and said Abramson was not an example of this, noting that “equality is at the core of our beliefs at the Times.” “Perhaps the saddest outcome of my decision to replace Jill Abramson as executive editor of The New York Times is that it has been cast as an example of the unequal treatment of women in the workplace,...

Just one day after the New Yorker published a blistering report uncovering substantial differences between Jill Abramson's salary and her male predecessors, The New York Times is denying that pay discrepancy led to the editor's firing. In a memo sent out to a select group of Nyt staffers Friday, Times CEO Mark Thompson decried the article that suggested Abramson was ousted for speaking out about her pay, according to Politico. “There are many who want to believe that pay was somehow a factor. It just wasn't. Despite all you may have read or heard, Jill's compensation was in fact greater than.

Glenn Greenwald thinks the New York Times is headed for a downward spiral after the firing of executive editor Jill Abramson this week. “I think of all the executive editors of the New York Times, at least in recent history, or I'll say in the last 10 years since I've been paying extremely close attention to how the New York Times functions, Jill Abramson was probably the best advocate for an adversarial relationship between the government and the media,” Greenwald said Friday in an interview on Huffington Post Live. Also read: Why Jill Abramson's Firing Will Hurt the NY Times “By contrast,...