New York Times Editor Bill Keller Resigns
- Posted on June 2, 2011 at 11:20am by
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NEW YORK (The Blaze/AP) — The executive editor of The New York Times is stepping down after eight years on the job.
The Times announced Thursday that Bill Keller is leaving the post to return to writing. He will be replaced by Jill Abramson, formerly one of his top deputies.
Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. says in a statement that Keller asked for the change a few weeks ago. Keller plans to write for The New York Times Magazine and the paper’s Sunday opinion and news section.
Abramson was the paper’s managing editor.
The newspaper said the changes are effective Sept. 6.
Gawker has the internal memo that went out to staff:
Dear Colleagues,
I am writing to give all of you – news and business colleagues alike –
some news about a leadership transition in the newsroom of The Times.
Later this year, Bill Keller will step down as executive editor of our
paper. His successor will be Jill Abramson, our managing editor and
Bill’s deputy during the eight years in which he ran our global news
operations. Jill has asked Dean Baquet, our Washington bureau chief,
to serve as her managing editor and he has accepted. All of this will
be effective after Labor Day.Any change like this is both exciting and bittersweet. On the one
hand, we look forward to the new leadership and all the potential
these two extraordinarily talented journalists offer us. And on the
other, we recognize that with Bill’s departure from his role, we are
losing someone who did an absolutely outstanding job in leading our
newsroom through some very difficult circumstances. We all know that
Bill is leaving to his successors a newsroom as strong as it has ever
been, and one that has shown tremendous flexibility as it expands and
moves further down the path to its multiplatform future. That is the
gift he is bequeathing to Jill and Dean and, through them, to all of
us.
The decision to make this move was Bill’s, and it will shock no one
who knows him to learn that he will return to writing the column and
the magazine pieces that he was so terrific at before he took on the
role of executive editor.Jill is perfectly prepared to step into her new role. She brings with
her a highly focused and determined journalistic and management style,
one that has served us well. Her decision to name Dean as her deputy
gives us a well rounded and extraordinarily talented leadership team,
one that I believe will take us to even greater levels of journalistic
accomplishment.Please join us in the newsroom at 11:00 this morning when we will have
a bit more to add on this exciting day at The Times.Arthur
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Comments (98)
Tired of Idiotic Comments
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 11:56am@ Mansquito
Report Post »I don‘t read the NY Times so I don’t know; who is Maureen Dowd?
mrsmileyface
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 2:37pmThe NYT’s makes great fish wrapping paper. It can also be used for training your puppy or dogs. Makes great bird cage liners. Can be used to wipe of windex off car windshields. And in an emergency can be used to wipe your rear-end. (which is more usefull than actually reading it).
Report Post »joewiz404
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 11:55amMaybe Just Maybe his mind sees what coming and the coolaid was too much………Jill can do a better job closing this libreal paper insted of him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The truth will set you free!!!!!!!
Report Post »TheKingfish
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 11:55amSure we believe he stepped down on his own!!! Circulation is down over 30% since he took over and the lofty reputation that the NYT’s used to have is gone for good. Ms. Abramson will not be able to turn the tide of disaster that has engulfed the old Gray Lady, another liberal editor whistling past the graveyard. Why would anyone thinking person read Pravda West or own any NON VOTING shares in the NYT’s Corporation? Talk about being eaten up with the dumb asses!!
Report Post »gAMEoVER
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 11:52amobamas defeat will be sweet
Report Post »Vickie Dhaene
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 11:49am@CATB I did see Diane Sawyer’s interview last night and she is pathetic as all her so called journalist friends are. Stay loyal to these communist reporters and we’ll soon see it all go away.
Report Post »carnifex
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 7:29pmI saw the interview as well, and for the life of me I couldn’t figure out why Bill was lofting softballs. And then it hits me, of course! Hot blond with brains! Bills got a thing for valkyries. Any hoo, (sic) it was the softest interview Bills had since the O’s on Superbowl Sunday. Very disappointing.
Report Post »caprica
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 11:46amnothing would help New York communsit Times…..they ugly faces of communsim and communsit slavery to inslave FEEDOM is expsed…boycutt the comunists NY times ! let the communist buncrupt! liars and thives and anti-america gang of liars and chuligans !
Report Post »carnifex
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 7:22pmRrrr, I don’t know if your being sarcastic or not. Appreciate the enthusiasm though. A little tip for you, if you’re going to post, write it first in Works, or Office, or some other word processor. Then run spell check. Then copy/paste into the reply box. We’ll all respect a little more effort. Thanks.
CHIVALRY–NOT ALL GIRLS LIKE IT. JUST THE ONES WORTH DYING FOR.
Report Post »carb148
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 11:45amGarbage in garbage out.
Report Post »ManSquito
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 11:45amThis portion of a 2004 interview should sum up who she is.
BM: We’re curious: which section of the Sunday Times do you read first?
(She mentions the book review she is allowed to read early then says…)
JA: But, to answer your question seriously, and as a reader, the first thing I read in the Sunday paper is Maureen Dowd’s column.
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 2:01pmWHO is Maureen Dowd ???
Report Post »I have NEVER read the NYT
Just knowing about the owners was enough info for me
carb148
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 11:44amGarbage in garbage out
Report Post »vtxphantom
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 11:41amJill Abramson, another graduate from the college of communism at Harvard. This woman will most likely be wacked out from the main stream. Expect no real change in NYT.
Report Post »waicool
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 11:41amOh wonderful, another partisan hack replacing a partisan hack as editor of a partisan hack newspaper. These New York elitist are intellectual inbreds and their offspring are consistently intellectually disfigured. Change = No Change at the NYT.
Report Post »Steve
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 1:39pmWow, very well put.
Report Post »conservativeBC
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 11:39amtip
Palin has a new bodyguard
http://conservativeblogscentral.blogspot.com/2011/06/piper-palin-blocking-press-for-mom.html
Report Post »kerf
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 11:39amI can’t help but be amused as I watch the “Lame Street Media” preside over their own extinction. They can’t admit that their worship of their god, Karl Marx, isn’t shared by most Americans.
Report Post »momprayn
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 11:37amLOL! Yes — collapse! One of my prayers has been that all the previous, decades old – liberal, satanic strongholds everywhere – media, unions, education system, legal system, etc. that the left has been using for their benefit and manipulation will all come tumbling down – no more!!! All evil, deceitful strategies won’t work anymore, will backfire on them!!! Yes – in Jesus name, AMEN!
Report Post »rightwingheroes
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 11:36amreplace one evil with another
the Liberal Democrat way
Report Post »supertas
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 11:32amAbsolutely laughing my a$$ off. When I read “extraordinarily talented leadership team”, I nearly tossed my cookies. Like trying to whack-a-liberal. The incestuous liberal orgy continues at the times.
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 11:38amYou see liberals are actually good for something. Ridicule
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 11:31am.
Report Post »Who reads that crap anyway? Obama‘s minions and most of them can’t read anyway, they just look at the pictures…………..
RightPolitically
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 11:29amThey are falling like flies!
Report Post »J.C. McGlynn
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 11:28amWhen the going gets tough, the losers quit. Hey, isn’t this what was said about Sarah Palin?
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 11:27amIt’s like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic as the Gray Lady slowly slides into the deep .
Report Post »NOBALONEY
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 11:45amGreat analogy.
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 11:27amsee ya.
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 11:26amHe doesn‘t want to be at the helm when that liberal rag that isn’t worth lining a hamster cage goes down the toilet…..LOL
Report Post »CatB
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 11:34amToo late …
Report Post »bandi9
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 11:26amso is AP going to come out with a story about how subscriber numbers have “unexpectedly” declined in droves?
Report Post »CatB
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 11:34amMy thought exactly …
Report Post »michael48
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 11:25amdid they move thier HQ’s to Moscow , yet??? Putin needs a paper for his bird cage…
Report Post »CatB
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 11:36amAnyone else see Diane Sawyer last night on Fox News? .. trying to spin how “fair” the alphabet networks are going to be in the 2012 election .. Anyone believe it?
TEA!
Report Post »vennoye
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 12:17pm@CATB
Report Post »No….did not believe it…………don’t believe in the tooth fairy either!
CatB
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 1:34pmLOL…
c
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 11:25amLet me guess…Jill Abramson is a liberal?
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 11:31amyep !!!!! wow, did not take a rocket scientist to figure this one out. commies feeding commies, i hope they all eat each other. any way gonzo, have a great day, really hot here in Texas again today, near 100,hardly no breeze, so i guess i want be doing any pout side honey dews today, man that really stinks { ha,ha,]
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 11:37amHey GONZO does this mean Jill gets to be first in line at the KOOLAID dispenser every morning ? Or does it mean she gets to actually mix the KOOLAID?
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 11:39amWonder who it was that hand-picked her? Soros? Obama? or the DNC?
Report Post »lketchum
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 11:41am@drattastic
Jill Abramson “is” the Koolaid….
Report Post »LibertyGoddess
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 11:42amHere’s my message to Bill Keller because I know he reads these blogs. When you attack others because of their religion and encourage others to vote against someone because of their religion, you deserve to be taken down a few notches in life. Everyone in America deserves to be treated with dignity regardless of religious affiliation. Honorable men and women deserve respect and the same opportunities as everyone else regardless if they are of your Evangelical persuasion. Shame on you for your religious bigotry. I hope others feel the same disgust about your actions and words as I do.
Report Post »True American66
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 11:47amMs. Abramson says…
“In my house growing up, The Times substituted for religion,” she said. “If The Times said it, it was the absolute truth.”
kinda says it all, doesn’t it?…..no need to rack your brain trying to decide in which direction she leans!
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 11:48amThe NY Times is still being published??
Report Post »militiaman
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 11:49amThis disgusting newspaper is no more than a yellow journalistic, leftist rag, full of evil people who are as out-of-touch with mainstream America as Osama Bin Laden.
They’ve been slowly going bankrupt for at least two years now. I’d love to see their demise printed in their last edition.
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 11:50amShirley not?!
Report Post »D0ntTread0nMe
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 11:57amWonderful… now the rest of the people that work there… K?
Report Post »http://www.mythoughtsfromthemiddle.blogspot.com
Gas137
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 12:19pmHe did not have the ability to get people to pay for the online version. Money talks…
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 12:29pmcommonsenseguy
Report Post »Near 100 in Atlanta today, I feel you pain buddy.
Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 12:30pmSo it seems that Jill is already in Uncle George’s pocket.
http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2011/05/how-george-soros-is-buying-up-amiercan.html
But get this. AFTER attending the board meeting so that Uncle George can give them marching orders (I think of the Legion of Doom from the old Justice League cartoons), she goes back to her desk and pens this article talking about how the right wing is buying influence in the media and the left is helpless and only has the poor unions to help them out. YOU MUST BE JOKING!!!
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/weekinreview/17abramson.html
I have to think that there is a special place in hell for people who mislead like this.
Report Post »theonefromabove
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 12:32pmGood for him!
http://politicalbowl.com – Political Videos
Report Post »lovenfl3
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 12:42pmIt’s incredible to see how far that once respected paper has fallen. The New York Times is less respected today than the Enquirer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbXPpBLlc1U
Report Post »techengineer11
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 1:28pmIs Jill Jewish too? Amazing to witness the control they have over our Media isn’t it? I bet if she was Muslim you guys would be raising hell wouldn’t ya?
Or what if 3 of the last 4 Democrat Supreme Court nominees has been Muslim? Would it had mattered? Of course I believe Sotamayer‘s father was most likely Jewish but I can’t prove that. That is the type of strangle hold which the Israeli Lobby has on the American political system. If you are going to run for office there are certain conditions which have to met says AIPAC.. lol
Report Post »jeffyfreezone
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 3:08pmThe Times is SO devoted to slanting the news to reflect their warped vision of things, it refuses to even publish an accurate best seller list. What a joke of a rag!
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 4:14pmIsn’t this the same paper that employed Jayson Blair? Yeah, they’re trustworthy alright…..
Report Post »avenger
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 5:48pmthe beginning of the end…
Report Post »Thatsitivehadenough
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 7:52amMaybe they think they need someone who is even more to the left. You never know. The far left never thinks they are far left enough no matter what.
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