Mr. Baquet called Ms. Elder “one of the newsroom’s most important leaders, and an advocate for women at the top of the masthead.”Carolyn Ryan, an assistant managing editor, echoed that thought. She was hired by The Times full time in the mid-1980s after working at the Children’s Storefront, a tuition-free school in East Harlem. Ms. Elder was made an assistant managing editor in 2011 and a deputy managing editor in late 2013. In September, Ms. Elder was chosen to lead an effort to explore partnerships between the newspaper and philanthropies or universities to further journalism in various forms. But Ms. Elder, ever the reporter, also included some blunt passages about her medical journey.

Source: New York Times December 21, 2017 17:25 UTC