Just one day after the New Yorker published a blistering report uncovering substantial differences between Jill Abramson’s salary and her male predecessors, The New York Times is denying that pay discrepancy led to the editor’s firing.
In a memo sent out to a select group of NYT staffers Friday, Times CEO Mark Thompson decried the article that suggested Abramson was ousted for speaking out about her pay, according to Politico.
“There are many who want to believe that pay was somehow a factor. It just wasn’t. Despite all you may have read or heard, Jill’s compensation was in fact greater than [her predecessor] Bill Keller‘s,” The memo said.