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Meet the Writer the New York Times Hired and Fired In Just Six Hours

Published: Feb. 16, 2018, 12:34 p.m.

On Tuesday afternoon, the New York Times announced that it would be hiring Quinn Norton as an editorial board member. Shortly before 10 p.m., the paper fired her. Norton has been a prolific tech journalist\u2014covering issues ranging from bioethics to the Anonymous movement for publications like Wired and the Atlantic\u2014and seemed initially to be a remarkably good pick to become the Times\u2019 lead opinion writer \u201con the power, culture, and consequences of technology.