The media world is reeling from the recent announcement that Jill Abramson, the first female executive editor at the New York Times’s 160-year history, has stepped down after fewer than three years at the paper. Journalists at the Times may be in shock, but Twitter is pointing to the unlikeliest of sages — Politico reporter Dylan Byers. Last year Byers served up a “wrong and possibly sexist” (Slate’s words) profile of Abramson, “Turbulence at the Times.” In it, Byers gave voice to a group of disgruntled (anonymous) Times employees who don’t like their boss, because she is “bitchy,” “very, very unpopular” and “tough.” It was … not well-executed. And now the worst part of today’s events may be seeing tweets like this:
Not only was @DylanByers ahead of the Jill Abramson curve with his report, but–as a reward?–it was called “sexist.” http://t.co/vOHGkYoPYr
— Matt Lewis (@mattklewis) May 14, 2014
btw, pat on the back to @DylanByers for what turned out to be a prescient 2013 piece http://t.co/wqqXKYDVz2
— Rosie Gray (@RosieGray) May 14, 2014
When’s @DylanByers going to tell us what’s going on over at the NYT? (Soon, I hope!)
— Henry Blodget (@hblodget) May 14, 2014
You know who I bet has some pretty good insight into Jill Abramson leaving NYT? @DylanByers.
— Rebecca Schoenkopf (@commiegirl1) May 14, 2014
Hard to say it better than this:
one terrible side effect of this news is that “dylan byers” no doubt feels smart about his little article from last year
— leoncrawl (@leoncrawl) May 14, 2014
