A story passed on by the Jender-Parents…
According to the soon to be gone Editor & Publisher, three of the top 20 circulation papers’ five female editors will be leaving their jobs, all within a few weeks of each other…
Nancy Barnes, Star Tribune editor and one of the two remaining females in the position, offers a familiar explanation:
“It is a brutal business for women, particularly women who want to have a family,” she says. “There are just different choices you have to make.
Yup, surely that must be right. That’s what it always is, isn’t it? There’s just one teeny difficulty this time:
Of the three women leaving, two are in their 60’s and retiring. The third, only 46, is planning to pursue a different avenue in journalism, as well as move closer to her husband.