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Interestingly Haile himself came to have second thoughts about the popularity machine he had created and left Chartbeat in 2016 to launch a company, Scroll, that would devote itself to helping publish...

Jill Abramson

Interestingly Haile himself came to have second thoughts about the popularity machine he had created and left Chartbeat in 2016 to launch a company, Scroll, that would devote itself to helping publish...

Nancy Peretsman of Allen & Co., a top Wall Street banker and a specialist in internet and media deals. Buffett was high on Peretsman, who had been a budding star at Salomon Brothers, the investment ba...

Jill Abramson

Nancy Peretsman of Allen & Co., a top Wall Street banker and a specialist in internet and media deals. Buffett was high on Peretsman, who had been a budding star at Salomon Brothers, the investment ba...

About Author
Jill Ellen Abramson (born March 19, 1954) is an American author, journalist, and academic. 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. 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.
In March 2016, she was hired as a political columnist for Guardian US. In 2019, she received widespread criticism from journalists after her book Merchants Of Truth was found to contain plagiarized passages and numerous factual errors.
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.

Engaged Time: it distilled how worthy of human attention a given piece of content was. To arrive at the figure, Chartbeat wired its computers to pick up on a sophisticated set of cues from the reader—...

Jill Abramson

Engaged Time: it distilled how worthy of human attention a given piece of content was. To arrive at the figure, Chartbeat wired its computers to pick up on a sophisticated set of cues from the reader—...

When Ben Bradlee died in October, Woodward emailed Bezos to impress upon him that the funeral would be a significant moment in the life of the paper. On my way, Bezos promptly emailed back.

Jill Abramson

When Ben Bradlee died in October, Woodward emailed Bezos to impress upon him that the funeral would be a significant moment in the life of the paper. On my way, Bezos promptly emailed back.

Needless to say, none of this was journalism. They were producing an entertaining, purposely offensive lad mag at a time when Maxim and others were in vogue.

Jill Abramson

Needless to say, none of this was journalism. They were producing an entertaining, purposely offensive lad mag at a time when Maxim and others were in vogue.

Keller clamped down on reporters’ uses of anonymous sources, especially national security officials who sold scoops but wouldn’t attach their names to the information they peddled. He was deeply skept...

Jill Abramson

Keller clamped down on reporters’ uses of anonymous sources, especially national security officials who sold scoops but wouldn’t attach their names to the information they peddled. He was deeply skept...

It’s easy to forget how desperately afraid of centralized power the Founders of America were. The First Amendment protecting freedom of the press was first for a reason.

Jill Abramson

It’s easy to forget how desperately afraid of centralized power the Founders of America were. The First Amendment protecting freedom of the press was first for a reason.

Scale. This was a welcome departure from what Zuckerberg maligned as the top-down way that Google organized the internet, which made the user feel like a casual reader alone in the Library of Congress...

Jill Abramson

Scale. This was a welcome departure from what Zuckerberg maligned as the top-down way that Google organized the internet, which made the user feel like a casual reader alone in the Library of Congress...

So was the spike in traffic they saw under Bezos, attributable mainly to the website’s new practice of publishing content in the early morning, when audience attention was at its peak. In October 2015...

Jill Abramson

So was the spike in traffic they saw under Bezos, attributable mainly to the website’s new practice of publishing content in the early morning, when audience attention was at its peak. In October 2015...

Other publishers treated the beat as a niche, whereas BuzzFeed knew that LGBT rights, and marriage equality in particular, was something that our core 18–35 audience cares a lot about. We see it as an...

Jill Abramson

Other publishers treated the beat as a niche, whereas BuzzFeed knew that LGBT rights, and marriage equality in particular, was something that our core 18–35 audience cares a lot about. We see it as an...

The editors had prepared almost nothing for the unthinkable, a Trump win. Instead, a special section devoted to the election of the first woman president was ready to go. The previous Sunday the edito...

Jill Abramson

The editors had prepared almost nothing for the unthinkable, a Trump win. Instead, a special section devoted to the election of the first woman president was ready to go. The previous Sunday the edito...

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 report...

Jill Abramson

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 report...

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That a chunk of code written by one person in six weeks could summarize the state of the world was revolutionary. To Google, it was another step toward its stated goal of making the company an institu...

Jill Abramson

That a chunk of code written by one person in six weeks could summarize the state of the world was revolutionary. To Google, it was another step toward its stated goal of making the company an institu...

Each journalist cost nearly half a million dollars when you added in healthcare costs and other coverage fees. The old-timers cost even more. Thinning the herd was the only way to achieve significant...

Jill Abramson

Each journalist cost nearly half a million dollars when you added in healthcare costs and other coverage fees. The old-timers cost even more. Thinning the herd was the only way to achieve significant...

Only a year after the seismic election, Politico had 6.7 million unique visitors a month. That same year, the Post lost $165 million.

Jill Abramson

Only a year after the seismic election, Politico had 6.7 million unique visitors a month. That same year, the Post lost $165 million.

At the reborn Post, failure was refreshingly destigmatized. It took 10 tries to find one that would work, as one Jeffism went.

Jill Abramson

At the reborn Post, failure was refreshingly destigmatized. It took 10 tries to find one that would work, as one Jeffism went.

The Facebook Election that Smith had so eagerly predicted was turning out not to be the Facebook election he had optimistically envisioned.

Jill Abramson

The Facebook Election that Smith had so eagerly predicted was turning out not to be the Facebook election he had optimistically envisioned.

The $101 million in Title IV funds Kaplan collected in 2001 became, by 2010, a whopping $1.46 billion.

Jill Abramson

The $101 million in Title IV funds Kaplan collected in 2001 became, by 2010, a whopping $1.46 billion.

All told during this period, Trump received $3 billion worth of free media coverage.

Jill Abramson

All told during this period, Trump received $3 billion worth of free media coverage.

The New York Times hopped on the trend, and by 2014 three of its six most popular pieces were lists. (Another two were celebrity coverage,

Jill Abramson

The New York Times hopped on the trend, and by 2014 three of its six most popular pieces were lists. (Another two were celebrity coverage,