Bennet
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Sometimes even a mild-mannered vegetarian like Arthur Gregg Sulzberger can feel obliged to spill blood. For Sulzberger, better known as A.G., the past 10 days—in which he tried to quell an unprecedented staff revolt at The New York Times over a bellicose, racially toxic op-ed by Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton, and essentially fired his editorial page editor, James Bennet—have amounted to both his most searing crucible […]
New York Times opinion editor James Bennet on Sunday announced that he has resigned, effectively immediately, following an internal revolt over Republican Sen. Tom Cotton’s “Send in the Troops” column published last week. The newspaper announced that Katie Kingsbury, will step in as an interim opinion page editor through the election; and that Bennet’s deputy editor Jim Dao is being reassigned back to the newsroom. In […]