“Do you have the balls for it?”
In the course of my short and controversial tenure in the job, I learned several things, among them: 1) print newspapers REALLY, REALLY didn’t want to change to adapt to the new digital realities; 2) I did not have the full backing of the paper’s leadership to carefully shepherd a balky, unhappy staff of 100 or so print reporters and editors across that unbuilt bridge to the 21st century; and 3) media reporters are an obsessive bunch, and they like nothing more than a good controversial-woman-editor story. Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/editing-while-female-jill-abramson-106782_Page2.html#ixzz32AIdVNH3 (via Editing While Female - Susan B. Glasser - POLITICO Magazine)
