Jill Abramson
Managing Editor, The New York Times, New York

Jill Abramson was appointed managing editor of The New York Times in August 2003, after having been Washington, D.C., bureau chief. As bureau chief, a job she assumed in December 2000, she directed the work of the newspaper’s 60-member Washington bureau. She joined The New York Times in September 1997 and became Washington editor in 1999. Previously, she worked at The Wall Street Journal from 1988-97.  While there, she served as deputy bureau chief in its Washington bureau and investigative reporter, covering money and politics. From 1986-88, she was editor in chief of Legal Times, a weekly newspaper in Washington, D.C. Jill Abramson won the National Press Club award for national correspondence in 1992 for her coverage of money and politics.