The NYT’s Game of Thrones: How the Top Journalism Job Was Dangled at Guardian Editor
DEAL MAKER
An email obtained by The Daily Beast reveals, as the struggle for power there intensified, the NYT’s CEO Mark Thompson wooed top Guardian editor Janine Gibson with the possibility of editing the Times.
As Jill Abramson’s firing from TheNew York Times becomes a tabloid-ready melodrama—“AN-GREY LADY!” screamed the cover of Friday’s New York Post, complete with a photo (Instagrammed by her daughter) of the tank-topped ex- executive editor brandishing boxing gloves—an old saying comes to mind:
