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Ex-NYT executive editor Abramson's book charts journalism's stormy seas

The book tells the story in 13 chapters, three on each protagonist-company and one on Facebook

MERCHANTS  OF TRUTH  The Business of News and the Fight for Facts Author:  Jill Abramson Publisher:  Simon & Schuster Price: $30 Pages: 534
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MERCHANTS OF TRUTH The Business of News and the Fight for Facts Author: Jill Abramson Publisher: Simon & Schuster Price: $30 Pages: 534

Nicholas Thompson | NYT
In the early spring of 2014, A G Sulzberger, then an editor on the metro desk of The New York Times, handed Jill Abramson, the executive editor, a copy of the “innovation report”. Sulzberger and a team of colleagues had been working on the document for months, and they’d produced a vivisection of the paper. The Times had been slow to adapt to the emergence of new digital platforms; it had thumbed its nose at the internet and thus the future. The report was insightful, enlightened and tough. And it drove Abramson over the edge.
 
She was upset because

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