The New York Times is replacing Executive Editor Jill Abramson with Dean Baquet, the paper's managing editor.
Abramson, who took the top spot at the newspaper in 2011, was the first woman to hold that job.
"I've loved my run at The Times," she said in a statement. "I got to work with the best journalists in the world doing so much stand-up journalism."
The Times notes that "the reasons for the switch were not immediately clear."
Baquet, 57, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and was the editor of the Los Angeles Times. He will become The Times' first African-American executive editor.
"It is an honor to be asked to lead the only newsroom in the country that is actually better than it was a generation ago, one that approaches the world with wonder and ambition every day," he said in the statement.
Arthur Sulzberger Jr., The Times' publisher, thanked Abramson for her service, saying she inspired "her colleagues to adjust their approach to how we deliver the news."
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