Posted on 07/31/2003 4:23:07 PM PDT by Timesink
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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 31, 2003--Jill Abramson and John M. Geddes were named managing editors of The New York Times today, effective September 2. Ms. Abramson has been the newspaper's Washington bureau chief since 2000 and Mr. Geddes has been the newspaper's deputy managing editor since 1997. The appointments were announced by Bill Keller, executive editor of The Times.
Ms. Abramson, 49, and Mr. Geddes, 51, succeed Gerald Boyd who resigned earlier this year. A replacement for Ms. Abramson has not been named at this time. Mr. Geddes will not be replaced, as his promotion is an expansion of his current portfolio of responsibilities.
Mr. Keller said, "In Jill and John, I will have two sidekicks who are superb journalists, genuine leaders, straight shooters, deeply committed to this paper and all it stands for."
In their new roles Ms. Abramson will focus on newsgathering while Mr. Geddes will be responsible for news operations. This is the first time in the newspaper's history that it has named two managing editors. The decision to appoint a managing editor to oversee news operations reflects the growing complexity of a company that now delivers its news in a variety of formats. It also honors the work of the Siegal Committee, which proposed greater attention to the management of the newsroom, including training and career development.
Ms. Abramson was appointed Washington bureau chief in 2000. Before that she was Washington editor from 1999 to 2000 where she was responsible for planning and directing the work of The Times's 60-member bureau. Before becoming Washington editor she served as the enterprise editor in the Washington bureau. She joined the newspaper in 1997.
Previously, she worked at The Wall Street Journal from 1988 to 1997. There she served as deputy bureau chief in its Washington, D.C., bureau and as investigative reporter, covering money and politics.
From 1986 to 1988 she was editor in chief of Legal Times, a weekly newspaper in Washington, D.C.
Ms. Abramson received a B.A. degree in history and literature, graduating magna cum laude, from Harvard College in 1976.
She is co-author of "Strange Justice," published by Houghton Mifflin in 1994, and "Where They Are Now," published by Doubleday in 1986. "Strange Justice" was a non-fiction finalist for the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award in 1994. Ms. Abramson won the National Press Club award for national correspondence in 1992 for political coverage of money and politics.
Mr. Geddes, who joined The New York Times as a business/financial editor in 1994, has been a deputy managing editor since 1997.
Prior to joining The Times, Mr. Geddes was the chief executive officer of BIS Strategic Decisions, a market research company acquired by Friday Holdings, an investment partnership, in 1994. Before that he was a principal at Friday Holdings.
From 1976 to 1993, Mr. Geddes worked in the newspaper industry. Thirteen of those years were spent at The Wall Street Journal in various positions including: bureau chief, Bonn, Germany; deputy managing editor and then managing editor, The Wall Street Journal/Europe; news editor, assistant managing editor; senior editor, and national news editor. He was an economics correspondent in Bonn for The Times from January 1979 to March 1980, a reporter in Bonn for the AP-Dow Jones News Service from January 1978 to January 1979, a New York reporter for AP-Dow Jones News Service from September 1976 to January 1978 and a reporter at The Ansonia Evening Sentinel, Ansonia, Conn., in 1976.
Mr. Geddes received a B.A. degree in economics, graduating cum laude, from the University of Rhode Island in 1974. He received an M.A. degree in business journalism from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1976.
The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT), a leading media company with 2002 revenues of $3.1 billion, includes The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, The Boston Globe, 16 other newspapers, eight network-affiliated television stations, two New York City radio stations and more than 40 Web sites, including NYTimes.com and Boston.com. For the third consecutive year, the Company was ranked No. 1 in the publishing industry in Fortune's 2002 list of America's Most Admired Companies. In 2003 the Company was named by Fortune as one of the 100 Best Companies to Work For. The Company's core purpose is to enhance society by creating, collecting and distributing high-quality news, information and entertainment.
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How do you think she earned her stripes?
So now the NY Times is hiring a former National Enquirer writer to be their official ombudsman of reader complaints?!BWAA HA HA!
The only thing that counts as credentials to the Left are how many times and how many ways have you attacked the Right and defended socialists (loved her Enquirer article suggesting a political damage control strategy for Hillary Clinton versus Genifer Flowers)...
Her husband, William Hamilton, was and is a senior editor at the Washington Post, and was probably one of the connections at the Post for the Clinton White House.
Thanks for the correction.
The New York Times is passionately committed to promoting liberalism. As Rush said on today's program, excellence is not among their objectives.
I thought it was Abramson. Totenberg? Mayer Hamilton?
I'm pretty sure some "journalist" took the info from Ken Bowtie and brought it to the media's attention.
"Mr. Bacon once worked at the Wall Street Journal with Jane Mayer, who asked to be identified by her married name, Hamilton."
The leaking of Tripp's file by the Pentagon's Bacon to the New Yorker's Mayer/Hamilton is a slam dunk violation of the Privacy Act, and Bacon and Mayer/Hamilton should be sharing a prison cell somewhere. There they can review their "sources and methods".
In the recent past, Mayer/Hamilton has been involved in gratuitous smears of Judge Starr and of Bush White House legal counsel staff. Regarding the latter, Mayer/Hamilton's publisher was forced to publish a retraction, an apology, and make material changes to Mayer/Hamilton's publication...
Kudoes to you for bringing the facts of the past to the present for all of us to remember!
Hmmm, that statement conjures up images which might excite Janet Reno or Rosie whats her face, but which revolt the rest of us. Had no idea Abramson was such a skank!!!!! Looks as rancid as Eleanor Clit. And we must never forget the attempted lynch job she and the equally noxious skank Jane Mayer did on Justice Thomas. BTW, does anyone have the figures on the NY Slimes' paid subscription figures over the last five years or so? I seem to recall a few years back that they had been losing subscribers at the rate of 10% per year. And now that the top 4 or 5 deck chairs have been rearranged, it appears that no one of any stature whatsoever wants to have their name on the Slimes masthead. What a cast of paid losers.
(not that I make a habit of it)
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