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NY Times Metro Editor Steps Down After Investigation
Wendell Jamieson has stepped down after "an investigation" — but the Grey Lady isn't saying what was investigated.
NEW YORK, NY — The editor of The New York Times' Metro section, Wendell Jamieson, has resigned as the result of "an investigation" — but the paper isn't saying what was investigated. Susan Chira will immediately replace Jamieson, who has left after 18 years with the Grey Lady, Times spokeswoman Eileen Murphy said Monday.
"I can confirm that Wendell Jamieson has left The Times following an investigation but out of privacy concerns for those involved, we're not commenting further," Murphy said in an email.
Executive Editor Dean Baquet and Managing Editor Joseph Kahn announced Jamieson's departure in an email to the newsroom on Monday, according to Gothamist.
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The message reportedly said little about the circumstances of his resignation but included a statement from Jamieson in which he praised Chira and vaguely apologized.
"Leading Metro for the last five years and working with the incredible Times team has been the high point of my professional life," Jamieson's statement read, according to Gothamist. "I regret and apologize for my mistakes and leaving under these circumstances."
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Jamieson joined the Times in 2000 and edited the paper's Pulitzer Prize-winning "Portraits of Grief" series after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Chira takes over the Times' coverage of the New York City region hot off her own Pulitzer win for the paper's coverage of workplace sexual harassment. She was previously a senior correspondent and editor covering gender issues.
The shakeup marks another newsroom scandal at the paper that sparked the #MeToo movement against sexual harassment with its investigation of the disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein.
Several women accused then-White House reporter Glenn Thrush of sexual misconduct in a Vox article published in November. He was reportedly suspended for two months, then reassigned from his high-profile beat to a post covering federal social agencies.
(Lead image: The New York Times Building is pictured in 2017. Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
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