Jill Abramson will take “a six-month detour” from her post as managing editor of The New York Times to focus on the paper's digital operations, Editor Bill Keller said in a memo to staff Wednesday.
Beginning June 1, the managing editor spot will be rotated with Larry Ingrassia taking the post for June and July, Dean Baquet assuming the role during August and September, and Susan Chira I the position for October and November.
Wrote Keller in the memo, first published on Poynter’s Romenesko site:
“No doubt this rotation will be widely analyzed, interpreted and speculated about. (I look forward to hearing and reading a lot of entertaining nonsense.) The real purpose is threefold: 1) to give us a chance to see some of our best editors applying their talents to the entire news report, in print and online, rather than to specific departments; 2) to give these editors a break, a digression, a cobweb-clearing, an adventure; and 3) to allow deputies in their departments to show what they can do with a couple months of greater authority and autonomy.”
At the end of the six months, all four will return to their previous jobs, Keller said.
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