The New York Times

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Jill Abramson, former executive editor of The New York Times, waves as she speaks at the commencement ceremony at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C., Monday, May 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Nell Redmond)

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FILE - This April 19, 2010 file photo shows then New York Times Managing Editor Jill Abramson at the 2010 Matrix Awards in New York. Abramson is speaking to the class of 2014 at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C. on Monday, May 19, 2014, her first public appearance since her dismissal from The New York Times. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, File)

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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)

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky told The New York Times last month that GOP incumbents would "crush" their tea party rivals in the primary season. (Associated Press)

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FILE - This Thursday, June 6, 2013, file photo, shows a sign outside the National Security Administration (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md. The New York Times reported late Monday, March 24, 2014, that the Obama administration this week will propose that Congress overhaul the NSA's electronic surveillance program. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)