• Poynter, Friday, December 16, 2011 3:44 PM

Analysts of Janet Robinson's surprise resignation as CEO of The New York Times Company are using the d-word -- as in "digital" expertise -- as a good bet for what her successor will have. “I would assume that given the importance of digital and how much more significant that revenue is that they’d look in the digital arena to replace Janet,” Alexia S. Quadrani, a media analyst at JPMorgan Chase, tells the newspaper in its piece announcing the news.

Meanwhile, All Things D's Peter Kafka reads between the lines of this article (which says that in the crucial meeting between Robinson and publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr., he "raised the issue of installing a different type of leadership at the company") and concludes she was fired.

If that's the case, her golden parachute of $4.5 million for next year (through a consulting arrangement) is still a pretty penny.

Poynter does a roundup of other negative analyses of Robinson's reign, but in another story includes plaudits to her from Times Executive Editor Jill Abramson and NBC News Chief Digital Officer Vivian Schiller.

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