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Jill Abramson (Jill Ellen Abramson) was born on 19 March, 1954 in New York City, U.S., is a Former executive editor of The New York Times. Discover Jill Abramson's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 69 years old?

Popular As Jill Ellen Abramson
Occupation Journalist · editor · author · academic
Age 69 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 19 March 1954
Birthday 19 March
Birthplace New York City, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1954

Jill Ellen Abramson (born March 19, 1954) is an American author, journalist, and academic.

1973

While a Harvard undergraduate, she was the arts editor of The Harvard Independent, and worked at Time magazine from 1973 to 1976.

Subsequently, she spent nearly a decade as a senior staff reporter for The American Lawyer.

1976

She received her high school diploma from Ethical Culture Fieldston School and a BA in History and Literature from Radcliffe College in 1976.

1986

In 1986, she was appointed as editor in chief of Legal Times in Washington, D.C., serving for two years.

1988

From 1988 to 1997, she was a senior reporter in the Washington bureau of The Wall Street Journal, eventually rising to deputy bureau chief.

1995

In 1995, Abramson and her The Wall Street Journal colleague (and fellow Fieldston alumna) Jane Mayer co-authored Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas, which detailed circumstances surrounding the confirmation hearings of Justice Clarence Thomas.

Maureen Dowd would later write of having bonded with Abramson during that time.

1997

Abramson joined the New York Times in 1997, working as the Washington bureau chief and managing editor before being named as executive editor.

She previously worked for The Wall Street Journal as an investigative reporter and a deputy bureau chief.

She joined The New York Times in 1997, becoming its Washington bureau chief in December 2000.

2000

From 2000 to 2001, she was a professor at Princeton University.

2001

She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001.

2003

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.

2007

In February 2007, Abramson testified in the perjury trial of Scooter Libby, United States v. Libby.

She was called as a defense witness to undercut the credibility of Judith Miller.

2010

In 2010, Abramson worked on news content on the Times' website for six months.

2011

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.

On June 2, 2011, Abramson became the executive editor of the Times, replacing Bill Keller who stepped down from the position to become a full-time writer.

2012

In 2012, she was ranked number five on the Forbes list of most powerful women.

She was also named as one of the 500 most powerful people in the world by Foreign Policy.

Abramson was born in New York City and grew up in a Jewish home.

Abramson was scheduled to address the commencement exercises of Barnard College on May 14, 2012.

Her speech was canceled after President Barack Obama requested to speak instead.

She received an honorary degree at Fairleigh Dickinson's 69th Commencement Ceremony in May 2012.

2013

In a February 2013 interview, Abramson spoke of the conflict she had with Raines as D.C. bureau chief, saying, "Howell from the get-go just had no use for me. ... I did think about quitting."

Abramson was named to the news managing editor position (with co-Managing Editor John M. Geddes) by Raines' successor Bill Keller.

In April 2013, Abramson was the subject of a sharply critical profile in Politico written by Dylan Byers entitled "Turbulence at the Times," in which anonymous Times staffers called her "impossible" and "very, very unpopular."

Abramson was deeply distressed by the report, later saying it made her cry.

2014

On May 14, 2014, Abramson was fired from her position as executive editor of the Times, and Dean Baquet succeeded her in that role.

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".

Five days later, she delivered the commencement address at Wake Forest University.

In June 2014, it was announced that Abramson had joined the English department at Harvard, and would teach classes on writing narrative nonfiction.

2016

In March 2016, she was hired as a political columnist for Guardian US.

During the run-up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Abramson argued in a column for Guardian US that Hillary Clinton, whom she had covered as a reporter and editor since the Whitewater controversy, was "fundamentally honest and trustworthy."

Abramson indicated that her reporting was initiated by an article by the journalist Marcia Coyle from 2016 when Abramson stated, "Tipped to the post by a Maryland legal source who knew Smith (who made the allegations), Marcia Coyle, a highly regarded and scrupulously nonideological Supreme Court reporter for The National Law Journal, wrote a detailed story about (Moira) Smith's allegation of butt-squeezing, which included corroboration from Smith's roommates at the time of the dinner and from her former husband. Coyle's story, which Thomas denied, was published October 27, 2016".

2018

On February 19, 2018, 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.

In December 2018, Fox News reported that Abramson's book Merchants of Truth criticized her former employer the Times for abandoning objectivity and becoming "anti-Trump" to bolster profits.

2019

In 2019, she received widespread criticism from journalists after her book Merchants Of Truth was found to contain plagiarized passages and numerous factual errors.