Quotes by Jill Abramson

About 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 deputy bureau chief.
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Having small children and being an investigative reporter would seem like a difficult mix, but it worked well for me. I was often working on my own enterprise stories, which were not as deadline sensitive.

Jill Abramson

As someone who has spent a lot of her career as an investigative reporter, I'll confess that a frustration of mine has always been that so much investigative journalism involves a dissection of events in the past.

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I think as an investigative reporter I had tough standards, but I don't think of myself as a tough person.

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I've pretty much stopped using a laptop because I'm not line-editing a lot of things anymore.

Jill Abramson

I have heard Obama officials say more than once, 'You will have blood on your hands if you publish this story.'

Jill Abramson

Secrets don't stay secrets very long, even when journalists decide to censor themselves.

Jill Abramson

I think a lot about something: Abe Rosenthal was once asked what he wanted on his headstone, and he said he wanted it just to say, 'He kept the paper straight.' And I think about that a lot.

Jill Abramson

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.'

Jill Abramson

The times I didn't get jobs I wanted, I remember feeling dispirited - really crestfallen.

Jill Abramson

There's a way to do networking that isn't overly brown-nosing.

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I'm talking to anyone who has been dumped - have not gotten the job you really wanted or have received those horrible rejection letters from grad school. You know, the disappointment of losing, or not getting something you badly want. When that happe...

Jill Abramson

I think about the question of perspective in reporting all the time, and since I spent 20 years of my career in Washington as both a reporter and an editor I'm keenly aware that a newspaper should not be dominated by stories in which the only voices ...

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In one's relationship with dogs and with a newsroom, a generous amount of praise and encouragement goes much better than criticism.

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Budget cuts are a sad reality in most newsrooms, and I am concerned that they reduce the collective muscle of journalists who are doing the expensive, and often dangerous, work of on-the-ground reporting.

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I have to pay attention to work on the weekends and always have my iPhone with me, but I don't mind.

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The idea that women journalists bring a different taste in stories or sensibility isn't true.

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The whole issue of how women's management styles are viewed is an incredibly interesting subject.

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Author Bio

  • NameJill Abramson
  • Descriptionformer executive editor of The New York Times
  • BornMarch 19, 1954
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist