A biography for Jill Abramsonhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“With the fragmentation of television audiences and the advent of cable and on-demand services, the prestige of being an anchor is not what it was in the days of Walter Cronkite.”
“I think as an investigative reporter I had tough standards, but I don't think of myself as a tough person.”
“There's a way to do networking that isn't overly brown-nosing.”
“As a big user of public libraries, I deplore the cutbacks they have had to sustain.”
“The Obama administration has had seven criminal leak investigations. That is more than twice the number of any previous administration in our history. It's on a scale never seen before.”
“I don't pretend I know everything.”
“I am in awe of women who have full family lives and seem to work round the clock in the 24/7 news cycle.”
“I think that a great newspaper is one that puts a real premium on digging to get the story behind the story.”
“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.”
“Nobody wants a unitary voice of authority any more.”
“You know, a dog can snap you out of any kind of bad mood that you're in faster than you can think of.”
“I don't keep up with Twitter all day long.”
“I have an older sister who sounds, unfortunately, exactly like me, and we sound like our mother did.”
“I've pretty much stopped using a laptop because I'm not line-editing a lot of things anymore.”
“The idea that women journalists bring a different taste in stories or sensibility isn't true.”
“My advice on getting a raise is what everybody's advice is: to become a confident negotiator; but that is so hard. My admiration for women who are good at that is unbridled. Women in general have a harder time talking about money with their bosses.”