Natalie Nougayrède

Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. holds up four fingers to indicate the four Pulitzer Prizes won by the New York Times in 2013 as Executive Editor Jill Abramson looks on.

Did female editors in Paris and New York stumble off the ‘glass cliff?’

May 15, 2014Arts, Culture & Media

Female editors of two of the world’s leading newspapers — The New York Times and the French daily Le Monde — lost their top jobs on Wednesday. Journalist Rebecca Traister says it may not have been the women, but the troubled times that did them in.Female editors of two of the world’s leading newspapers — The New York Times and the French daily Le Monde — lost their top jobs on Wednesday. Journalist Rebecca Traister says it may not have been the women, but the troubled times that did them in.