The New York Times has appointed Jill Abramson as its new executive editor. She is the first woman to lead the newspaper in its 160-year history.
Ms. Abramson, 57, said that as a born-and-raised New Yorker, she considered being named editor of The Times to be like “ascending to Valhalla.”
From the Wrap:
The move was accompanied by another prominent management shift at The Times: Dean Baquet, the Washington bureau chief, will become the managing editor for news.
The shift puts a woman and an African-American in charge of arguably the most influential news organization in the country, a significant sign of diversification at a paper that has been criticized for its weakness in that area despite its liberal leanings.
Interesting news about the news!
On a related note: Stop complaining about the New York Times pay wall. As noted in the terrific documentary Page One: Inside the New York Times, running the Times isn’t free, so neither is its content.
Valhalla?
more like climbing on a burning Viking pyre ship as it drifts out to sea….
I’m sorry but I’m going to cling tenaciously to my right to bitch about pay walls.
Ad infinitum. World without end, forever and ever.
So there.
Cool beans about the new NYT editor, though!
@2: You have a right to bitch. You also have a right to be ignorant.
The Queen of the Damned.
@ 3 – Right back at ya, sweetums!!
😀
I’m not complaining that they are charging. I’m complaining about how they are charging, and how much. Price tiers are retarded. Extra to read on a iphone or ipad? DIfferent price for ipad and iphone? Even more if you want to read both?
Also, the prices are too high, very close to the same price they charge to print on physical paper in the middle of the night, and rush it to my doorstep at the crack of dawn. They want $35/month to read it online, and on my devices?
Try $5/month and I’d pay. And they would make money on that too. It isn’t like they stop showing adds when you cough up for the digital subscription.
I’m not complaining either. I just don’t go to their website any more. Guess what? I don’t miss it nearly as much as I thought I would.
That is such awesome news—I wish her luck!
Jump the paywall by switching your browser to porn mode.
Their paywall revenue is going to the idiot consulting firm that charged tens of millions to implement the fucking paywall. Great business model.
Why would anyone complain about the paywall? It’s more like a paynag. When the nag comes up, all you have to do is go to the address bar in your web browser and delete the last part of the querystring, the part at the end starting with “&gwh=”. It’s a matter of a few keystrokes and can be done very quickly.
If the New York Times didn’t want you to be able to do that, they could very easily prevent access to their articles without a valid login, without a valid querystring, but given that it’s so easily to get past, they must want people to get past it.
Strawman, I say! As mentioned above, complaining about their paywall does not mean you don’t think the Times is worth paying for, or that it should be free. They should make money, but they should not do it in a stupid (and completely ineffective) way.