뉴욕타임스 최초의 여성 편집국장이었던 질 애이브럼슨(60)의 돌연한 교체(交替)는 월급이 적다고 불평했기때문이라고 뉴요커 매거진이 14일 보도했다.
에이브럼슨은 수주전 뉴욕타임스 경영진에 전임 국장인 벨 켈러에 비해 월급이 너무 적다는 사실을 알고 이에 대한 문제제기를 한 것으로 알려졌다. 한 관계자에 따르면 그녀는 월급이 적은게 성차별(性差別)때문이 아니냐는 식으로 대응, 경영진의 노여움을 샀다는 것이다.
뉴요커는 과거 뉴욕타임스가 여직원으로부터 성차별 소송을 당하는 등 불유쾌한 기억이 있어 이번 문제에 민감하게 반응했을 가능성이 컸을 것으로 보고 있다.
그러나 이번 경질(更迭)은 자칫 평지풍파(平地風波)를 불러일으킬 가능성이 있다. 뉴욕타임스의 여성관리자인 전국부장 앨리슨 미첼과 편집부국장 수잔 키라는 에이브럼슨의 해고가 그녀를 ‘롤 모델’로 생각하는 타임스의 여직원들이 반발할 수도 있다고 경고한 것으로 알려졌다.
지난 2011년 여성으로는 처음 뉴욕타임스 편집국장에 임명된 에이브럼슨은 그간 아서 슐츠버거 주니어 발행인과 마크 톰슨 전무와 갈등이 있었으며 이번 해고로 타임스의 내부 문제가 생각보다 심각하다는 말이 나오고 있다.
일각에서는 후임으로 최초의 흑인 편집국장인 딘 베케이(57)를 임명한 것이 이같은 분위기를 고려(考慮)한 것이 아니냐는 분석도 제기되고 있다.
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2012 one of the 500 most powerful people in the world
Jill Ellen Abramson (born March 19, 1954) is an American author and journalist best known as the former executive editor of The New York Times. Abramson held that position from September 2011 to May 2014. She was the first female executive editor in the paper's 160-year history. Abramson joined the New York Times in 1997, working as the Washington bureau chief and managing editor before being named as executive editor. She previously worked for the Wall Street Journal as an investigative reporter and a deputy bureau chief.
In 2012, she was ranked number five on Forbes list of most powerful women. She was also named as one of the 500 most powerful people in the world by Foreign Policy Magazine.
Early life and education[edit]Abramson was born in New York City, and grew up in a Jewish home. She received her high school diploma from Ethical Culture Fieldston School and a BA in History and Literature from Harvard University/Radcliffe College in 1976.
Career[edit]While an undergraduate, she was the Arts Editor of The Harvard Independent, and worked at Time magazine from 1973 to 1976. Subsequently, she spent nearly a decade as a senior staff reporter for The American Lawyer. In 1986, she was appointed as editor in chief of Legal Times in Washington, D.C., serving for two years. From 1988 to 1997, she was a senior reporter in the Washington bureau of The Wall Street Journal, eventually rising to deputy bureau chief. She joined The New York Times in 1997, becoming its Washington bureau chief in December 2000.
Abramson was the Times' Washington Bureau chief during the turbulent period of Spring 2003 during the run-up to the war in Iraq and the Jayson Blair scandal, which led to the resignation of Executive Editor Howell Raines and Managing Editor Gerald Boyd. In a February 2013 interview, Abramson spoke of the conflict she had with Raines as D.C. bureau chief, saying, "Howell from the get-go just had no use for me. ... I did think about quitting." Abramson was named to the news Managing Editor position (with co-Managing Editor John M.Geddes) by Raines' successor Bill Keller.
In 1995, Abramson and her The Wall Street Journal colleague (and fellow Fieldston alumna) Jane Mayer co-authored Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas, which detailed circumstances surrounding the confirmation hearings of Justice Clarence Thomas. Maureen Dowd would later write of having bonded with Abramson during that time. From 2000–01, she was a professor at Princeton University.[9] She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001.
In February 2007, Abramson testified in the perjury trial of Scooter Libby, United States v. Libby. She was called as a defense witness to undercut the credibility of Judith Miller.
On June 2, 2011, it was announced that Abramson would become the executive editor of the Times in September 2011, replacing Bill Keller who would step down from the position to become a full-time writer.
Abramson was scheduled to address the commencement exercises of Barnard College on May 14, 2012. Her speech was canceled after President Barack Obama requested to speak instead. She received an honorary degree at Fairleigh Dickinson's 69th Commencement Ceremony in May 2012.
On May 14, 2014, it was announced that Abramson would step down as executive editor of the Times, and that Dean Baquet would succeed her in that role.
Personal life
In 1981, she married Harvard classmate Henry Little Griggs III. Griggs was then president of Triad, a political public relations company. He is self-described as a "writer, editor and media-relations consultant specializing in nonprofit advocacy campaigns." They have two children.
In May 2007, Abramson was seriously injured in a truck-pedestrian traffic accident near the New York Times's Times Square headquarters. She and her husband subsequently filed a lawsuit against the truck's driver, owner and operator.[8]
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