His appointment is a significant step in what has been amethodical effort to restructure a traditional journalistic enterprise as the media industry grapples with wrenching change.
When most executives think about leadership succession, they envision amethodical, pain-staking process, a steady flow of meetings, memos, drafts, and eventually hard documents spelling out the essential elements of executive transition.
There were three principles I worked off of, which was - one was that I needed to set up amethodical process that would take people through a series of steps that enabled them to talk about these issues, but for it not to become a free-for-all.