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Ousted New York Times Editor Abramson Still Not Sure Why She Was Fired

Jason Del Rey has been a business journalist for 15 years and has covered Amazon, Walmart, and the e-commerce industry for the last decade. He was a senior correspondent at Vox.

I’m still trying to sort of figure that out. I’m not altogether sure. I know publicly what has been said by the owners of the New York Times and I have to accept that on its face, I suppose.

— Former New York Times top editor Jill Abramson, appearing at the Code/Media Series: New York, when asked why she thinks the paper pushed her out in May.

This article originally appeared on Recode.net.

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