Jill Ellen Abramson was born on March 19,1954 and is an American author, journalist, and academic.
25 Facts About Jill Abramson
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Jill Abramson is best known as the former executive editor of The New York Times; Abramson held that position from September 2011 to May 2014.
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Jill Abramson was the first female executive editor in the paper's 160-year history.
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Jill Abramson previously worked for The Wall Street Journal as an investigative reporter and a deputy bureau chief.
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Jill Abramson was named as one of the 500 most powerful people in the world by Foreign Policy.
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Jill Abramson was born in New York City and grew up in a Jewish home.
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Jill Abramson received her high school diploma from Ethical Culture Fieldston School and a BA in History and Literature from Radcliffe College of Harvard University in 1976.
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Jill Abramson joined The New York Times in 1997, becoming its Washington bureau chief in December 2000.
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Jill Abramson was the Times' Washington Bureau chief during the turbulent period of Spring 2003 during the run-up to the war in Iraq and the Jayson Blair scandal, which led to the resignation of Executive Editor Howell Raines and Managing Editor Gerald Boyd.
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Jill Abramson was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001.
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In February 2007, Abramson testified in the perjury trial of Scooter Libby, United States v Libby.
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Jill Abramson was called as a defense witness to undercut the credibility of Judith Miller.
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In 2010, Jill Abramson worked on news content on the Times website for six months.
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On June 2,2011, Jill Abramson became the executive editor of the Times, replacing Bill Keller who stepped down from the position to become a full-time writer.
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Jill Abramson was scheduled to address the commencement exercises of Barnard College on May 14,2012.
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Jill Abramson's speech was canceled after President Barack Obama requested to speak instead.
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Jill Abramson received an honorary degree at Fairleigh Dickinson's 69th Commencement Ceremony in May 2012.
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On May 14,2014, Jill Abramson was fired from her position as executive editor of the Times, and Dean Baquet succeeded her in that role.
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Jill Abramson was reportedly fired because of "her arbitrary decision-making, a failure to consult and bring colleagues with her, inadequate communication, and mistreatment of colleagues".
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In June 2014, it was announced that Jill Abramson had joined the English department at Harvard, and would teach classes on writing narrative nonfiction.
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On February 19,2018, Jill Abramson followed up her 1995 book on Clarence Thomas and the Anita Hill hearings with a discussion concerning new evidence that Thomas had committed perjury which might be tied to possible impeachment.
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However, in an interview with NPR's Michel Martin, Jill Abramson admitted that she "fell short" in attributing her sources for some passages of the book.
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Stelter pointed out to Jill Abramson that lifting words from other sources and citing footnotes is still considered plagiarism.
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In May 2007, Jill Abramson was seriously injured in a truck-pedestrian crash near the New York Times headquarters in Times Square.
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Jill Abramson subsequently filed a lawsuit against the truck's driver, owner, and operator, who was involved in the crash, as well as two companies involved in the crash.