Abramson out as NYT editor, Baquet replaces her

Re: Abramson out and NYT editor, Baquet replaces her

Let’s look at some numbers I’ve been given: As executive editor, Abramson’s starting salary in 2011 was $475,000, compared to Keller’s salary that year, $559,000. Her salary was raised to $503,000, and—only after she protested—was raised again to $525,000. She learned that her salary as managing editor, $398,000, was less than that of the male managing editor for news operations, John Geddes. She also learned that her salary as Washington bureau chief, from 2000 to 2003, was a hundred thousand dollars less than that of her successor in that position, Phil Taubman. (Murphy would say only that Abramson’s compensation was “broadly comparable” to that of Taubman and Geddes.)

 

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Cable talking heads can't resist talking about this whether people care or not because the NYT sets the agenda for what they talk about every single day. If the NYT went away tomorrow talking heads would wet their pants because they would no longer have a road map to guide them.

 

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I found her to be the same. Unfair but her voice and delivery are very uninspiring.

When I've seen her on tv have always thought. boy I would hate to be in a
long meeting with that lady.

 

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Totally true.

 

Re: Abramson out and NYT editor, Baquet replaces her

Story also notes (via leaked email) that Mark Thompson was fully on board with Abramson hiring the former Guardian editor, and in that email he was asking how to get Abramson to commit to a few more years. Quite a difference from the "sources" who were saying yesterday that Abramson was out on a limb making that hire.

 

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Instagram photo goes viral:

 

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WaPo profile: http://wapo.st/1qGVAhk

Here was Baquet, who became the first African American executive editor of the New York Times on Wednesday after the abrupt firing of his predecessor, in his formative stages, but already in his element. It was a story that required charm and persistence. A story that really mattered. He’d razzed Amoss, now the editor of the New Orleans Times-Picayune, about writing “sissy features” and pushed him to join him on tougher assignments, Amoss recalled. A bullet in the wall of the Habana Bar on Decatur Street, rogue cops in a prostitution sting. That mattered.

What the heck is a "sissy feature"? Sounds very insensitive, maybe even homophobic.

 

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From same article:

There were occasional blips. Some staffers were annoyed by an incident that, in some respects, mirrors a controversy that contributed to the downfall of Jill Abramson, his predecessor at the Times. Abramson’s boss was irked that she didn’t initially return to the newsroom to oversee coverage of Superstorm Sandy in 2012; Baquet bothered some Los Angeles Times staffers by vacationing during Hurricane Katrina, the storm that devastated his hometown in 2005.

Heck of a job brownie

 

Re: Abramson out and NYT editor, Baquet replaces her

Times has demanded a retraction of the pay parts of Auletta's reporting (he has refused) because combined with accounts from Times PR person they add up to an open and shut black letter wrongful termination suit. Abramson's settlement had better have been for a fuck-you money sum.

 

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This part makes him sound kind of shallow:

You also have to wonder how a woman editor who "required" you to go shopping at the "best" stores would be perceived.

 

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The Times' response to this has been spectacular fail the likes of which, were it any other company, Maureen Dowd would use as the butt of an incredibly unfunny humor column two weeks from now.

 

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He sounds like Frank Ridgeway.