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“A marvelous book” (The New York Times Book Review), Merchants of Truth is the groundbreaking and gripping story of the precarious state of the news business. The new digital reality nearly kills two venerable newspapers with an aging readership while creating two media behemoths with a ballooning and fickle audience of millennials.
- Paperback
- February 11, 2020
The definitive report on the disruption of the news media over the last decade. Merchants of Truth is the groundbreaking and gripping story of the precarious state of the news business told by one of our most eminent journalists. Jill Abramson follows four companies: The New York Times, The Washington Post, BuzzFeed, and VICE Media over a ...
Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts is a 2019 book by Jill Abramson that follows four news organizations— The New York Times, The Washington Post, BuzzFeed, and Vice News —through changes in news media technology and standards over the course of the 21st century.
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.
Author Jill Abramson, a former New York Times editor, vividly documents media titans navigating their way through an industry beholden to Facebook and Google.
Feb 5, 2019 · Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts by Jill Abramson has an overall rating of Positive based on 19 book reviews.
Jill Abramson is a senior lecturer at Harvard University. She also writes a biweekly column for The Guardian about US politics. She spent seventeen years in the most senior editorial positions at The New York Times, where she was the first woman to serve as Washington bureau chief, managing editor, and executive editor.
