There is a thread connecting Jill Abramson to the girl buried in my woods: both confident, outspoken, strong women, they faced an opposition they perhaps could not have imagined because it is almost never mentioned: the opposition of the male establishment, in the person of a famous publisher or in the person of a nameless drunk, who made them examples of the price we must still be prepared to pay.
Jill Abramson Appointed Executive Director of The New York Times
Having lived through the bad old days of journalism… I was elated to hear that Jill Abramson has been appointed the first women executive director of The New York Times.