The New York Times on Wednesday fired executive editor Jill Abramson and announced the paper’s current managing editor Dean Baquet as the new executive editor.
Abramson said in a statement, “I’ve loved my run at The Times. I got to work with the best journalists in the world doing so much stand-up journalism.”
Abramson, 60, became the Times’ first woman executive editor in 2011.
“It is an honour to be asked to lead the only newsroom in the country that is actually better than it was a generation ago… one that approaches the world with wonder and ambition every day,” Mr. Baquet said.
Mr Baquet, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who formerly edited the Los Angeles Times, will become the first African-American to lead the paper.
Jill Ellen Abramson is an American author and journalist.In 2012, she was ranked number five on Forbes list of most powerful women.She was the first female executive editor in the paper’s 160-year history.
