I'd been coming toCubafornearly20years, but what I kept thinking of was an exchange I'd had withSusanChira, then the Foreign Desk editor, back in 2006 when Fidelfirst fell ill.
While her decisions pleased editors in their early fifties, like Chira and Berke, they did not please editors who were closer to sixty and wondered if their age was held against them.
So when she replaced two editors on the masthead, Gerald Marzorati and Susan Edgerley, with Richard Berke and Susan Chira, she had to meet with each privately. (The newsroom noticed that, with Chira, Abramson had promoted someone with whom she sometimes clashed.) Every decision triggered still more decisions.