вЂњIt made him feel even more strongly that this is the right thing to do,вЂќ a person familiar with BaquetвЂ™s thinking told me.

Then the Daily News bloodbath expedited his thinking that he needed to hand the section to an experienced newsroom leader. Nevertheless, Baquet began talking to Levy about the job earlier this month. He is also one of three deputy managing editors whose names appear directly below Baquet and managing editor Joe Kahn on the Times masthead. Levy, on the other hand, is already one of the paperвЂ™s most senior journalists. (Among the executive editors to date, in fact, he was the only metro editor to go on to run the paper.) More recently, Carolyn Ryan went on to become Washington bureau chief and then politics editor after her turn running metro ended in 2013, and she has since been appointed to the masthead. Rosenthal began his rise to the top of the masthead when he was put in charge of metro back in 1963.

The metro-editor job, after all, has typically been passed down to one of the departmentвЂ™s deputies, and itвЂ™s a position thatвЂ™s always been seen as a crucial stepping stone at the Times. Former executive editor Jill Abramson recently tweeted a dig at her old employer for not being all over the rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.Д¬urrent executive editor Dean BaquetвЂ™s decision to appoint Levy appears to fly in the face of tradition. Even the Times itself has missed a beat or two. The Village Voice and New York Observer are digital-only imitations of their former identities. Tronc, the notoriously ham-handed parent company of the New York Daily News, recently slashed the tabloidвЂ™s staff in half. Furthermore, the Times appears to be reprioritizing local news as its competitors in the space falter. First, the metro-editor position unexpectedly opened up with the abrupt departure in May of Wendell Jamieson, who left the Times amid a still- unspecified investigation into workplace communications that fell somewhere along the broad and complex #MeToo spectrum. On one level, the appointment is being presented as a solution to two immediate problems.

On Tuesday afternoon, The New York Times is expected to announce the appointment of Cliff Levy, a veteran reporter, editor, and digital-newsroom seer of sorts, to lead the metro section.

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