By: Erin McClam, Associated Press Writer (AP) A former editor who claimed
New York Post executives forced her out of a job because they wanted a leadership team of Australian and British men has dropped her $8 million discrimination suit against the newspaper.
Maralyn Matlick, who rose to Sunday editor in 25 years at the tabloid, said Wednesday she had accepted an undisclosed amount of severance pay in exchange for dropping the suit.
"It is now my belief that at no time while I was employed by the
Post did the newspaper make any decision concerning my employment that was based on my being a woman or being an American," she said in a statement.
Matlick had claimed she was dismissed from the
Post in February 2002 because Publisher Lachlan Murdoch wanted to install an all-male, Australian and British team to head the paper.
Murdoch, son of News Corp. chief and media titan Rupert Murdoch, boasted of the initiative, Matlick said in the lawsuit filed April 1 in Manhattan federal court.
Matlick's statement said she was dropping the suit "based upon the evidence which has been provided by the
Post." She did not elaborate, and her attorney, Kalvin Kamien, did not immediately return a call for comment.
A
Post spokeswoman declined further comment.
The absence of a severance package was one of Matlick's key complaints in the suit. She claimed male employees at the paper who had been fired had received severance pay.
Matlick started at the paper in 1977 and worked as a reporter and in city and metropolitan editing jobs there.
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