Elizabeth Spayd is an American media journalist. She was the first woman to be named managing editor at ''

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'', the sixth

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of ''

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'', and a transparency consultant for

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. During her tenure at ''The New York Times'', she took a number of controversial stances, and the paper eliminated her role in 2017.

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