62 Quotes by Jill Abramson

Her spirits seemed remarkably good, given the circumstances,

I think a lot about something: Abe Rosenthal was once asked what he wanted on his headstone, and he said he wanted it just to say, 'He kept the paper straight.' And I think about that a lot.

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.

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.

The times I didn't get jobs I wanted, I remember feeling dispirited - really crestfallen.

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

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