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 Recently, The New York Times
named Jill Abramson as its first woman executive editor. She is
the first female editor in the world’s
most respected newspaper’s 160
year history. From September 6, Mrs. Abramson will lead the newsroom of the The New York
Times as the new executive editor. Currently, she is the newspaper’s
managing editor.
Jill Abramson was born on March 19, 1954 in New York City. She received
a Bachelor of Arts in History and Literature from Harvard University
in 1976. She worked at Time magazine as a reporter from 1973 to 1976
while she was studying at Harvard. After graduation, she worked at
The American Lawyer, a monthly law magazine, as a senior staff reporter for
nearly 10 years.
 She
went on to work as editor-in-chief of Legal Times, another monthly law magazine, in
Washington, D.C. for two years. Then, she worked as a senior reporter
at The Wall Street Journal and eventually became deputy bureau chief. 1n 2000,
she became the chief of The New York Times Washington bureau. From
2000 to 2001, she also taught students at Princeton University as
a professor. In 2003, she moved
back to New York and became the news managing editor of the newspaper.
She didn’t stop there. She was named the executive editor of The New
York Times in early June of this year. She will take the role three months
later, in September, as the newspaper’s first woman executive editor!
“I grew up in New York, reading The New York Times. I dreamed of becoming
the boss of the newsroom of the Times when I grow up. My dream finally came true!” she said.
 Mrs. Abramson
is known as a passionate journalist. Not only her
staff reporters, but her bosses also respect her. She is expected
to lead The New York Times to the next level in a new era for newspapers, when
a growing number of readers
prefer to get news from free
online sources. Most newspapers are having a hard time because they
are losing their readers.
In order to survive in this difficult
era, Mrs. Abramson is focusing on the newspaper’s digital strategy. The company has introduced various ways to pay for stories and other
content at nytimes.com in an attempt to get readers
to pay for its content. The New York Times started providing articles for 15 dollars a
month (4 weeks) as of March 28 of this year.
Let’s hope Mrs. Abramson leads the newspaper well and provides us with many good
contents! Good luck with your new position, Mrs. Abramson and
congratulations! |
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