Today's Times provides an update on the turmoil in its own upper management ranks. "Her Job Split in Two, Veteran Times Executive Opts To Leave" is the headline the paper hangs over its own story on the departure of Denise F. Warren. The article describes her as "the executive vice president for digital products" and "one of the New York Times Company's top executives."
Add her to the list of high-ranking Times women who have been forced out of the company or left on their own in recent years, including Jill Abramson, who was the executive editor; Vivian Schiller, who was senior vice president and general manager of NewYorkTimes.com; and Janet Robinson, who was CEO of the New York Times Company.
If this were happening at, say, Fox News, or the Republican National Committee, you can bet the price of an annual seven-day-a-week home delivery subscription to the Times at a non-discounted rate that the Times would be writing about it on the front page, or at least on a section front, as part of a "war on women" type trend, complete with anonymous quotes about misbehaving male executives and the organization's fundamentally patriarchal culture. No such coverage or dot-connecting appears in today's Times report, which doesn't even mention the other women who have left.
I'm not saying the Times is sexist; plenty of male executives have left the paper in recent years, too. But I do think the paper isn't particularly aggressive when it comes to covering itself. That's understandable but nonetheless hypocritical for a paper that recently faulted Bloomberg News for not covering Bloomberg.