Jill Abramson Named Executive Editor of The New York Times, Succeeds Bill Keller

Posted on June 2, 2011

The New York Times announced today that Jill Abramson has been named executive editor, and Dean Baquet has been named managing editor. Both of the appointments are effective September 6, 2011.

Abramson has been managing editor of The New York Times for eight years. She joined The Times in September 1997 and became Washington editor in 1999. In 2000, she was named Washington bureau chief. She moved to New York as managing editor in 2003. Her bio can be found here on nytimes.com.

Abramson succeeds Bill Keller who will step down to write for the newspaper. The Times says Keller will write for both The New York Times Magazine and The Times's new Sunday opinion and news section, The Sunday Review, set to launch on June 26. Keller spent eight years as executive editor of the Times.

Arthur Sulzberger Jr., publisher of The New York Times, said in a statement, "Bill came to me several weeks ago and told me that he felt the time had come for him to step down from the role of executive editor. I accepted his decision with mixed emotions. I'm truly grateful for the outstanding job he has done leading our newsroom for the past eight years, and I'm delighted we're not losing him. Those of us at The Times will continue to benefit from his solid judgment, wisdom and insights, and our readers will once again benefit from hearing his powerful voice on a wide range of issues."