Categories: OLD Media Moves

WSJ vets running the show at NYTimes

Dean Rotbart of NewsBios and TJFR fame points out that three of the top editors at the New York Times are former journalists at The Wall Street Journal, which is now trying to take away some of the Times’ readers.

Rotbart writes, “The latest WSJ ‘defector’ to take the reins at the Times is Lawrence ‘Larry’ Ingrassia who is serving as acting Managing Editor for News. Granted, Ingrassia’s ‘promotion’ is only for two months, after which he’ll return to his regular duties as the Times’ highly regarded business editor.

“But for the moment, three of the Times’ most senior editors are all Wall Street Journal alumni.

“Ingrassia, 58, worked for the Journal for 25 years prior to joining the Times in January 2004. Times managing editor John M. Geddes, 58, worked for the Journal for 13 years, while the Times’ other managing editor, Jill Abramson, 56, worked at the financial daily from 1988 to 1997.

“Bill Keller, 61, the Times’ Executive Editor, is the odd man out, having never worked for the Dow Jones & Company flagship.

“Ingrassia, Geddes and Abramson all joined the Times before Murdoch’s NewsCorp purchased Dow Jones in late 2007 for $5.6 billion. Many of their former colleagues at the Journal are no longer in positions of power, as Murdoch and Journal managing editor Robert Thomson have largely replaced the old guard.”