In The Times, Geraldine Fabrikant covers the hiring of Jane Mendillo as head of the Harvard Management Company.

After appointing Drew G. Faust as president last year, Harvard now has women serving in two prominent posts.

I guess Evelynn Hammond doesn’t matter? Honestly, these Times reporters are so damn lazy.

For example:

The university’s decision was greeted with enthusiasm by people who have worked with her and in the endowment world in general.

Fabrikant then quotes Jack Meyer, Mendillo’s former boss, who has a vested interest in praising her because Harvard has some of its money in Meyer’s Convexity Capital hedge fund, and Lulu Wang, the woman who hired Mendillo for Wellesley.

It’s fine and good to get quotes from people who know and have worked with Mendillo, but that hardly establishes that people “in the endowment world” greeted Mendillo’s choice “with enthusiasm.”

It’s lazy reporting like this—and I’ve seen so much of it in the Times lately—that is going to lead to Rupert Murdoch kicking this newspaper’s butt.

Is Mendillo a good choice or not? I still have no idea.