Jill Abramson

Jill Abramson was the first female executive editor of the New York Times (2011 to 2014). During her seventeen years at the paper she was also the first woman to serve as its managing editor and as its Washington bureau chief. Before joining the Times, she spent nine years at the Wall Street Journal. She is now a senior lecturer at Harvard University and writes a bi-weekly column for the Guardian about US politics. Merchants of Truth is her definitive inside story of the disruption of the news over the last decade.