Jill Abramson on the Times’ buyouts and layoffs
"My strategy in approaching, first the voluntary buyouts, and then some layoffs, was that we were at a point in our evolution and in making the digital transition successfully where, some of the top jobs in the newsroom we sort of could no longer afford. They're great people, they're incredibly talented, they're <em>Times</em> people to the core, they do have amazing institutional memory, but in some ways, they were editors of editors. We just had a lot of layers."
