There was no simple reason I was fired. I was a less than stellar manager, but I also had been judged by an unfair double standard applied to many women leaders. Most of all, I became the first woman editor at a very bad time in journalism, when a failed business model was bringing into question almost every principle of journalism that I had learned during more than 30 years in the profession. I was not willing to sacrifice my ethical moorings for business exigencies. My scruples were rooted in the golden age of newspapers, which had long since passed. But I didn’t think technological change
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