• Women In The Media, Wednesday, June 8, 2011 3:33 PM

"I can assure you that no woman will ever be an editor at the New York Times." Clifton Daniel, then a top Times editor, reportedly said that in a 1961 interview with Eileen Shanahan, the first female reporter in the Times Washington bureau, as Poynter's Jim Romanesco points out.

Neither Daniel nor Shanahan are around to eat crow or celebrate now that Jill Abramson has in fact taken on that role. "But I'm extremely conscious that I stand on the shoulders of women," Abramson said. Part of her debt is to the women who sued the Times in 1974 for sex discrimination, some of whom are interviewed in a Women In The Media piece that also analyzes the breakthrough.

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