The Gender Report traditionally provides a weekly round-up of links to online articles that may be of interest to our readers. Much electronic ink has been spilled this week over the firing of Jill Abramson, the first female executive editor of the New York Times. The dust has yet to settle on the controversies that surround what happened. Rather than add to what has already been said, we’ve compiled a reading list of just some of what has been written. Articles included in this feature do not necessarily reflect the views of The Gender Report or its writers. View past week’s round-ups here. See this week’s general reading list here.
From the New York Times
–Times Ousts Jill Abramson as Executive Editor, Elevating Dean Baquet (New York Times)
–What Might Leadership Change Mean for Times Readers? (by Margaret Sullivan – New York Times Public Editor)
–After Criticism, Times Publisher Details Decision to Oust Top Editor (New York Times)
Seeking Answers
–Jill Abramson ousted from New York Times (Politico)
–Why Jill Abramson Was Fired (New Yorker)
–Was Jill Abramson Fired After Complaining About Pay Discrimination? (Huffington Post)
–New York Times Defends Editor’s Sudden Firing, Blaming Her ‘Arbitrary Decision-Making’ (Mashable)
Responses and Commentary
–How an historic moment in the news business is undercut by race and gender politics (All Digitocracy)
–I Sort of Hope We Find Out That Jill Abramson Was Robbing the Cash Register: Trying to explain a singularly humiliating firing (New Republic)
–The Prettiest Girl at the Party: Jill Abramson and the New York Times (Medium)
–‘Brilliant,’ ‘respected’ and ‘uniquely powerful’: Some different words about Jill Abramson (Poynter)
–To Young Women at the New York Times, Jill Abramson Was Everything (XX Factor)
Reflections on ‘Editing While Female’
–Editing While Female: Field notes from one of journalism’s most dangerous jobs (by Susan Glasser in Politico Magazine)
–Jill Abramson Will Never Know Why She Got Fired (by Ann Friedman for NY Mag)
–Dear Jill: From One Pushy Media Dame to Another (by Kara Swisher in Re/code)
Examining the State of Women in Journalism
–Boys on the bus are back (Politico)
–Here’s What Female And Male Journalists Actually Make (Buzzfeed)
–With Jill Abramson’s NY Times Ouster, None Of The Ten Largest Papers Are Led By Women (MMFA)
–As Jill Abramson exits the NY Times, a look at how women are faring in newsrooms (Pew Research Center)
There have been many more articles written (and are sure to be many more in the near future). Feel free to share others in the comment section below or by emailing genderreport[at]gmail.com.
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