American - Editor | March 19, 1954 -
I have an older sister who sounds, unfortunately, exactly like me, and we sound like our mother did.
Jill Abramson
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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.
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I am in awe of women who have full family lives and seem to work round the clock in the 24/7 news cycle.
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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 think that a great newspaper is one that puts a real premium on digging to get the story behind the story.
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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.
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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.'
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I've pretty much stopped using a laptop because I'm not line-editing a lot of things anymore.
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I have heard Obama officials say more than once, 'You will have blood on your hands if you publish this story.'
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The whole issue of how women's management styles are viewed is an incredibly interesting subject.
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The times I didn't get jobs I wanted, I remember feeling dispirited - really crestfallen.
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