Jill Abramson Temporarily Steps Aside as Managing Editor to Focus on Digital Side

“A bold, necessary step. // Jill Abramson Temporarily Steps Aside as Managing Editor to Focus on Digital Side - http://nyti.ms/ddH5pq”

Ms. Abramson was a senior reporter in The Wall Street Journal’s Washington bureau, then its deputy bureau chief, before becoming Washington bureau chief for The Times in 1997. She was appointed managing editor in 2003. Mr. Keller said this announcement was not about succession planning. The executive editor of The Times is required to retire at age 65, which Mr. Keller will reach in early 2014.

I wondered what had happened to the Times. Make or break.