News about Jill Abramson

The newspaper's enthusiastic coverage of the World Economic Forum's annual Davos meeting as "a corrupt circle-jerk," a former editor of the New York Times slammed the newspaper's eager coverage of the event as 'a jerk.' Jill Abramson, a journalist who worked for the paper for 17 years, said The Times is a newspaper that distributes articles quoting the event's top-profile speakers to gratify their egos and entice them to speak at their own 'high-dollar' conferences. She also said that the conference's bias in favor of the conference was a recent effort to obtain 'phony news,' and that before she left in 2014, editors wanted to discourage reporters from attending.