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May 16, 2014 · Auletta also reports that a few weeks ago, Jill hired a lawyer who was addressing the pay disparity issue. It’s possible that move triggered her ouster.
Jill Ellen Abramson (born March 19, 1954) is an American author, journalist, and academic. She is best known as the former executive editor of The New York Times; Abramson held that position from September 2011 to May 2014. She was the first female executive editor in the paper's 160-year history.
Jul 18, 2014 · Abramson began laying out the most urgent issue on her mind: the encroachment on press freedom. Jim Risen, a colleague of hers in the Washington bureau of the Times, has recently been subpoenaed...
May 26, 2014 · Weeks before Abramson was fired, she came to believe that her compensation as the executive editor was not equivalent to her male predecessor’s, and she was unhappy enough about the situation to...
May 18, 2014 · Sulzberger decided to fire Abramson and replace her with Baquet, thus making him the first African-American executive editor of the paper—but under the most sour, trying, and confused...
May 14, 2014 · A third issue surfaced, too: Abramson was pushing to hire a deputy managing editor to oversee the digital side of the Times. She believed that she had the support of Sulzberger and Thompson to ...
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May 16, 2014 · It is always hard to say what causes a final break -- a firing, a divorce -- but, clearly, a last straw came a few weeks ago, when [former executive editor Jill] Abramson ... decided to hire a...
