Among other issues, a dispute over native advertising apparently factored into Jill Abramson’s dismissal from The New York Times this week. The now former executive editor and Mark Thompson, the
paper’s CEO, didn’t see eye to eye on the controversial ad format, Ken Auletta reports in The New Yorker. “She had already clashed with … Thompson, over native advertising and
the perceived intrusion of the business side into the newsroom,” Auletta writes.
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