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THE NEW YORK Times has stunned the media world by firing its executive editor Jill Abramson without any clear reason.
In its own report about the shake up in the newsroom, the newspaper said the 60-year-old was ‘abruptly dismissed’ yesterday.
She is to be immediately replace by managing editor Dean Baquet.
Reporters David Carr and Ravi Somaiya described a “stunned newsroom” following the announcement by published Arthur Sulzberger Jr.
Abramson took over the top job in September 2011. Sources within the newspaper have said there was a “serious tension” between her and the publisher, who believed employee complaints that she was “polarising and mercurial”.
There were also “clashes” between the editor and her second-in-command Baquet.
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Despite that report in the paper, the official line taken was the change in leadership took place because of “concern about aspects of newsroom management”.
In her own statement, Abramson said under her watched the paper “successfully blazed trails on the digital frontier” and “come so far in inventing new forms of storytelling”.
“Our masthead became half female for the first time and so many great women hold important newsroom positions,” she also added.
Before taking the top job, the now 60-year-old journalist had been an investigative reporter for the rival Wall Street Journal and then the head of the Times’ Washington bureau from 1997.
She acknowledged in an interview last month that she had four tattoos including a “T” representing the Times.
According to the company’s 2013 annual statement, the firm had an annual turnover of $1.57 billion.
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First we learn about the 17 million year old sperm and now this . It’s only 7.50 am. How much more exciting news will the day bring. I’m thinking of taking the day off in anticipation
Thanks to New York Times I learned about the damaging effects of some drugs that I was put on and the lawsuits in America. If only doctors could have told the truth about these drugs !
[Not forgetting that chronic exposure to this drug causes shrinkage of the brain ~ a study funded by the company themselves]
[2009] “AstraZeneca buried unfavorable studies of its $4.4 billion blockbuster psychiatric drug Seroquel, according to internal documents released Friday in a legal dispute between the company and lawyers for thousands of people who sued the company because they said the drug caused diabetes and weight gain” ~
From what I’m reading at the moment Pfizer is about to take AstraZeneca over for $106 billion ? You cannot be worth that much without vulnerable “hosts” for their drugs on the ground.
I speak as someone who has been on both Seroquel and Zyprexa in the past. Both are major tranquilizers (despite the fancy names that you might hear them called). Both can be highly damaging when taken long term. I was given these drugs to try to cover up the damage done by “anti-depressant” / SSRI drugs. As for some these drugs lead to mania/”psychosis” (loss of touch with reality). For others SSRIs increase the risk of suicide and violence (refer to work of Dr Peter Breggin). I took the drug for panic and learned the hard way that the lie that these drugs “rebalance neurotransmitters” is a clever but damaging myth.
[Never stop or change prescribed drugs without talking to your doctor, due to the dangers of withdrawal]
So to sum up, I learned this through the New York Times and not from the people that should have told me $$$
Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) started to warn about Zyprexa last month even though these articles have been in NY Times in 2006 or possibly before ! How nice of them !
“Siobhán Barry said up to 100,000 people, “enough to fill Croke Park on any given Sunday”, are on psychotropic medications — which have been shown to cause conditions such as diabetes, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol”.
Have we become a nation of drug addicts ? Just because they are prescribed doesn’t make them safer. Not forgetting that more people in this country die from prescribed Psychoactive drugs than drugs like cocaine etc
Short term use of tranquilizers can help someone who is in deep distress (eg 1 to 2 weeks depending on whether the drug suits a person or not). But most people do not need them long term. Plus they are over prescribed ie the person is given a dosage that is too high.
But to get back to my point, if people don’t learn the truth via the medical profession in a timely manner (ie not years after side effects are known) it is up to the media to educate the people with information from validated, reliable sources. After all it is the public that is the clinical trial when it comes to these drugs. Psychoactive or not. As negative trials on these drugs are sometimes hidden .
If you work for any American company you can expect to get fired as quickly as this.One dsy you are talking to a guy on the phone and the next day you are told he has gone..
The NYT is a joke newspaper just like the Gaurdian.”
– It does have some good articles on it as has been pointed out , .Is also known as Jew York Times .
For an alternative to the paper of record – try this .- NYT examiner https://www.nytexaminer.com/
Abramson thinks she can. “The thirst for the quality information the New York Times provides is very real and pretty unquenchable at this point,” she says. But what can the NYT offer British readers that they don’t already get? “Sophistication of analysis and news presentation that we do on a higher plane than anywhere else.”
New York Times editors don’t do modesty, Abramson no exception. She says her ambition for the paper is to become “the international provider of the highest quality news and information. That simple. It’s the best, so everyone is going to want that.”
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