Lachlan Cartwight of Breaker looked into rumors that New York Times business editor Ellen Pollock is retiring.
Cartwright reports, “Pollock has presided over The New York Times biz day coverage for coming up on a decade, so when word started going around 620 Eighth Avenue that Pollock was close to retiring, we dialed and smiled the former Bloomberg editor and found reports of her retirement are greatly exaggerated.
“‘I am not retiring right now, but I’m not going to die at my desk,’ Pollock told Breaker, putting the latest bit of Wolfgang’s scuttlebutt to bed.
“If and when Pollock does decide to step down from her role, there are a number of successors waiting in the wings. Tech Editor Pui-Wing Tam and Deputy Business Editor Mohammed Hadi are well-liked by the masthead and the section’s reporters. We are reliably informed that Opinion Editor Kathleen Kingsbury, whose name had been linked to the role, is not in the mix.
“A spokesperson for The New York Times declined to comment.”
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