NY Times Editor Admits Paper Made Mistakes In Run Up To War: "I Would Have Paid A Lot More Attention To The People On The Board Who Had Doubts"...

Editor and Publisher :

When Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. first raised the question of a job change for Gail Collins in 2001, she was afraid he was going to fire her. "I was at a party and he was there," Collins, then an Op-Ed columnist, recalled. "He whipped around and said, 'do you like your job? Would you give it up?' "

The result, of course, was just the opposite. Instead of being fired, she was promoted, becoming the paper's first female editorial page editor and replacing Howell Raines, who went on to a short, tumultuous reign as executive editor.

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