The latest from Ken Auletta at The New Yorker, who, citing “extremely well-informed sources at the paper,” reports:

Abramson was, essentially, fired for cause, for lying to Sulzberger.

In the New York Times, David Carr recounts a similar-ish series of events, though he focuses on an alleged (and related) misleading of someone other than Sulzberger, and the word “lie” is not present.

However: Both Carr and Auletta suggest that if a newspaper is indeed being run by a dishonest editor, in the end it’s the publisher’s fault.

Carr: “The current mayhem aside, Mr. Sulzberger’s real failing has been picking two editors who ended up not being right for the job.” Auletta: “Sulzberger has been, to say the least, an imperfect steward of the paper.”

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3 replies on “Did a Lie Cause the Firing of <i>New York Times</i> Executive Editor Jill Abramson?”

  3. No link! And no mention in this post of what the lie was all about! And Graham’s probably right that the answer to the question in the headline is no!

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