Jill Abramson Quotes

The Obama administration has had seven criminal leak investigations. That is more than twice the number of any previous administration in our history. It’s on a scale never seen before.

I have an older sister who sounds, unfortunately, exactly like me, and we sound like our mother did.

In one’s relationship with dogs and with a newsroom, a generous amount of praise and encouragement goes much better than criticism.

I don’t keep up with Twitter all day long.

I have heard Obama officials say more than once, ‘You will have blood on your hands if you publish this story.’

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.

I don’t pretend I know everything.

I’ve pretty much stopped using a laptop because I’m not line-editing a lot of things anymore.

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.

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.

You know, a dog can snap you out of any kind of bad mood that you’re in faster than you can think of.

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.

I think the Huffington Post has been inventive and presents what it aggregates well.

The whole issue of how women’s management styles are viewed is an incredibly interesting subject.

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.

I think that a great newspaper is one that puts a real premium on digging to get the story behind the story.

With the fragmentation of television audiences and the advent of cable and on-demand services, the prestige of being an anchor is not what it was in the days of Walter Cronkite.

As a big user of public libraries, I deplore the cutbacks they have had to sustain.

I like the immediacy of blogs and the democratizing effects of letting millions of voices bloom on the Web.

Secrets don’t stay secrets very long, even when journalists decide to censor themselves.

I think as an investigative reporter I had tough standards, but I don’t think of myself as a tough person.

The times I didn’t get jobs I wanted, I remember feeling dispirited – really crestfallen.