The book will explore the challenges that traditional media organizations are facing as they seek to survive and flourish in the digital age, and how online media companies are changing the way news is gathered and consumed.
In a statement released by Simon & Schuster, Ms. Abramson said that after having wrestled with the rapidly changing media landscape as an editor, she was eager to tackle the subject as a reporter. “I’ve been a frontline combatant in the news media’s battle to remain the bedrock of an informed society,” Ms. Abramson said. “Now I’m going to wear my reporter’s hat again to tell the full drama of that story in a book, focusing on both traditional and new media players in the digital age.”
Ms. Abramson, the first female executive editor of The Times, led the paper from September 2011 until May 2014, when she was abruptly dismissed by the paper’s publisher, Arthur Sulzberger Jr. She’s since taken a position as a visiting lecturer teaching narrative nonfiction writing at Harvard University, and announced plans for a long-form journalism startup with Steven Brill.
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