Accuracy in Media

Former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson, who was fired from that job last May, is laughing all the way to the bank. The New York Post reported that Simon & Schuster will pay her what is believed to be about $1 million for her new book on the future of the media. While this seems […]

New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet issued a memo on Tuesday in which he admitted that last year’s buyouts hurt the company in many ways. But he vowed to fix those things in 2015: By any measure, 2014 was a dramatic year — a sudden leadership change ending with the departure of treasured colleagues. […]

Hillary Clinton, who would probably like a do-over with the media after stumbling badly during her recent book and media tour, admitted on Thursday that she’ll have to work on her “expectations” of the press, going forward: I think maybe one of the points Jill was making is that I do sometimes expect perhaps more […]

Former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson told Politico last week that Hillary Clinton was unrealistic about her expectations that journalists should be ”100 percent” in her corner. Abramson, who was abruptly fired two months ago, said that she found Hillary to be very friendly and helpful as a source when Bill was running […]

New York Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr. tried to set the record straight on Saturday by issuing a statement regarding his decision to fire executive editor Jill Abramson last week. He reiterated that it was a management issue that had to do with her “inadequate communication and the public mistreatment of colleagues,” and blamed […]

In a move that shocked the newspaper world yesterday, The New York Times fired executive editor Jill Abramson and replaced her with managing editor Dean Baquet. Times publisher Arthur O. Sulzberger, Jr. informed the staff of the changes at a quickly assembled meeting, citing “an issue with management in the newsroom” as the reason for […]

 During an online interview with actress Marlo Thomas, New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson denied that the newspaper has an “excessively liberal” bias, and used the gun issue as an example of the paper’s unbiased coverage. Abramson was responding to a letter sent in by one of the Time’s readers which said that the […]

New York Times reporter James Risen, who is battling the government to protect one of his confidential sources, lashed out at the Obama administration during the Sources and Secrets conference in New York last week, calling it “the greatest enemy of press freedom that we have encountered in at least a generation.” According to Poynter, […]

According to a story by The New York Observer’s Ken Kurson, resentment by reporters of the editorial page at The New York Times has reached the boiling point, and they blame editorial page editor Andrew Rosenthal for the bad blood. Kurson spoke with more than two dozen current and former Times staffers who cited numerous […]

New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson says that Barack Obama’s White House is the “most secretive White House” that she has ever covered. Abramson made her remarks in an interview with Al Jazeera America that will air Sunday night: It is the most secretive White House that I have ever been involved in covering…I […]