Jill Abramson Quotes
-
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.
-
People often assume New York City is no place to keep a dog. This is certainly what my parents told me when I was growing up there. But I have found this not to be the case at all.
-
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.'
-
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 about the question of perspective in reporting all the time, and since I spent 20 years of my career in Washington as both a reporter and an editor I'm keenly aware that a newspaper should not be dominated by stories in which the only voices and perspective come from those in power.
-
The whole issue of how women's management styles are viewed is an incredibly interesting subject.
-
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.
-
I have heard Obama officials say more than once, 'You will have blood on your hands if you publish this story.'
-
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.
-
The idea that women journalists bring a different taste in stories or sensibility isn't true.
-
I've pretty much stopped using a laptop because I'm not line-editing a lot of things anymore.
-
I've taught a college journalism course at two universities where my students taught me more than I did them about how political news is consumed.
-
I think that a great newspaper is one that puts a real premium on digging to get the story behind the story.
-
I'm a huge dog nut - giant, giant.
-
I like the immediacy of blogs and the democratizing effects of letting millions of voices bloom on the Web.
-
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.
-
Nobody wants a unitary voice of authority any more.
-
Although I believe the Web has greatly increased the distribution of quality news, I do worry about those who don't have Internet access.
-
I admit that I am hopelessly hooked on the printed newspaper. I love turning the pages and the serendipity of stumbling across a piece of irresistible information or a photograph that I wasn't necessarily intending to read.
-
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 think the Huffington Post has been inventive and presents what it aggregates well.
-
I have an older sister who sounds, unfortunately, exactly like me, and we sound like our mother did.
-
There's a way to do networking that isn't overly brown-nosing.