Jill Abramson
Jill Abramson
Jill Ellen Abramson is an American author and journalist best known as the former executive editor of The New York Times. Abramson held that position from September 2011 to May 2014. She was the first female executive editor in the paper's 160-year history. Abramson joined the New York Times in 1997, working as the Washington bureau chief and managing editor before being named as executive editor. She previously worked for The Wall Street Journal as an investigative reporter and a...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEditor
Date of Birth19 March 1954
CountryUnited States of America
What's next for me? I don't know. So I'm in exactly the same boat as many of you.
There's a way to do networking that isn't overly brown-nosing.
You can verify that in news meetings I sometimes say, 'This is skewed too far to the left,' or 'The mix of stories seems overweeningly appealing to a reader with a certain set of sensibilities, and it shouldn't.'
I think that a great newspaper is one that puts a real premium on digging to get the story behind the story.
I don't keep up with Twitter all day long.
The times I didn't get jobs I wanted, I remember feeling dispirited - really crestfallen.