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From the Wall Street Journal:
New York Times Co. on Thursday named managing editor Jill Abramson to succeed Bill Keller as the Times's executive editor, putting a woman in the top editorial role for the first time as the 160-year-old paper attempts to reinvent its business around new digital products.
Washington bureau chief Dean Baquet will succeed Ms. Abramson as managing editor.
Mr. Keller, a former foreign correspondent for the Times who took the executive editor post in 2003, will return to writing full time as a columnist for both the New York Times magazine and the paper's new opinion section, the Sunday Review, which ...
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