Changes at the top at the New York Times.<br/> <br />Effective immediately, managing editor Dean Baquet will become executive editor of the company's flagship newspaper.<br/> <br />He is succeeding Jill Abramson, who was appointed The New York Times' first woman editor in 2011.<br/> <br />In a statement about the unexpected move, New York Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr, thanked Abramson but did not explain why her tenure was ending.
