FORA.tv Speaker - Jill Abramson

Jill Abramson took over as Executive Editor of The New York Times in September 2011. Previously, she was Managing Editor from August 2003 until August 2011, during which she helped supervise coverage of two wars, four national elections, hurricanes and oil spills. She also wrote about politics in the Week in Review and Book Review sections. She served as Washington Bureau Chief from December 2000 until July 2003. She joined the newspaper in September 1997 and became Washington editor in 1999. Previously, from 1988 to 1997, Abramson worked at The Wall Street Journal, where she served as deputy bureau chief in its Washington D.C. bureau and as an investigative reporter, covering money and politics. Abramson received a B.A. degree in history and literature, graduating magna cum laude, from Harvard College in 1976.