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Ex-Times editor pulls out of Brandeis commencement

By Washington Examiner
Published May 16, 2014 4:54pm ET
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Ex-Times editor pulls out of Brandeis commencement
FILE - The New York Times managing editor Jill Abramson attends the 2010 Matrix Awards presented by the New York Women in Communications at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in this Monday, April 19, 2010 file photo in New York. The New York Times on Wednesday May 14, 2014 announced that executive editor Jill Abramson is being replaced by managing editor Dean Baquet after two and a half years on the job. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, File) | Evan Agostini

WALTHAM, Mass. (AP) — Jill Abramson, the recently ousted executive editor of The New York Times, has backed out of attending Brandeis (BRAN’-dys) University’s commencement.

The Justice student newspaper reports that Abramson told the university’s president she won’t be present Sunday to get an honorary degree she had been scheduled to receive.

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