After less than three years on the job, The New York Times’ first female executive editor, Jill Abramson, was abruptly fired on May 14, 2014. Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. offered no direct reasoning for ousting the historic hire, other than a semi-vague memo to the staff that explained: The reason — the only reason — for that decision was concerns I had about some aspects of Jill’s management of our newsroom, which I had previously made clear to her, both face-to-face and in my annual assessment.... At the very least, Abramson is in good company of women trailblazers at The New York Times who’ve ruffled feathers due to their unladylike outspokenness. Sara Jane Lippincott, who wrote under the pen name Grace Greenwood, was the paper’s first female reporter about whom women’s historian Maggie Maclean wrote she was often disliked for her strong opinions on women’s rights and the abolition of slavery. The original pushy lady at The New York Times! ow.ly/wY5je
Posted on: Sun, 18 May 2014 21:30:17 +0000
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