Politico Accidentally Points Out Sexism At The New York Times
Late last night, Politico published an expose on Jill Abramson’s “turbulent leadership” at the New York Times. Unfortunately, it appears the piece can be summed up like this: New York Times reporters don’t like working for a woman.
The piece twists itself into knots, trying to figure out how to best criticize her work; Abramson, the woman who led the Times to win four Pulitzer’s this year, established a paywall that has helped shore up the Times’ digital revenue, embraced the web’s technology with innovative pieces like “Snow Fall,” and helped maintain this struggling newspaper as the “paper of record,” is alternately “impossible” to work with but isn’t around enough or “approachable;” alternately “very unpopular right now” and leaving the Times “leaderless” but still “very respected there.”