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Jill Ellen Abramson (born March 19, 1954) is an American author, journalist, and academic. She is 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.
Jul 14, 2015 · Abramson, who explicitly denied being fired because she is a woman, said that the many years she spent as the only female in a roomful of male managers might have led her to overcompensate. What could she have done better?
Mar 24, 2015 · Jill Abramson, former executive editor of The New York Times, returned to Harvard last fall as a visiting lecturer in the Department of English. Here, she recounts her transition back to where her news career started.
Feb 5, 2019 · In her new book Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts, out February 5, Jill Abramson chronicles the upheaval that has rocked the media industry over the past decade, as told through the stories of four outlets: BuzzFeed, Vice, the Washington Post and the New York Times.
As a Harvard senior, Abramson was arts editor of the Harvard Independent. She met with the current class of Nieman Fellows for a discussion about female newsroom leadership, the future of foreign correspondents and the Obama administration’s legal pursuit of journalists.
Jun 12, 2014 · Jill Abramson, who was ousted as executive editor of the New York Times in May, will become a visiting lecturer in narrative nonfiction for Harvard University in the fall semester, the New York...
Jun 12, 2014 · The former executive editor of The New York Times, whose sudden dismissal sent shock waves through the media world, will teach undergraduate courses on narrative nonfiction.
