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Visiting Scholar Jill Abramson Begins Residency
Journalist and author Jill Abramson kicked-off her Visiting Scholar residency with a full day of classroom visits on November 19 and a public lecture on November 20.
Journalist and author Jill Abramson kicked-off her Visiting Scholar residency with a full day of classroom visits on November 19. She also worked with the staff of The Insight, the school newspaper, and was interviewed by the paper's two student co-editors.
Jill started her day visiting teacher Charlie Blank's Law class, which was followed by a series of fourth grade classroom visits. Students turned the table on the renowned journalist, who spent the last 17 years in the most senior editorial positions at The New York Times, by excitedly asking her a barrage of questions about her career and about the newspaper industry in general.
In the afternoon, Jill had an engaging lunch with the school newspaper staff and explored story topics for upcoming issues of The Insight. She was also interviewed by co-editors Sam '15 and Maghnus '15. That interview will be featured in the paper's upcoming issue. Jill finished out the day speaking with seventh graders in the McCray Theater.
Jill started her day visiting teacher Charlie Blank's Law class, which was followed by a series of fourth grade classroom visits. Students turned the table on the renowned journalist, who spent the last 17 years in the most senior editorial positions at The New York Times, by excitedly asking her a barrage of questions about her career and about the newspaper industry in general.
In the afternoon, Jill had an engaging lunch with the school newspaper staff and explored story topics for upcoming issues of The Insight. She was also interviewed by co-editors Sam '15 and Maghnus '15. That interview will be featured in the paper's upcoming issue. Jill finished out the day speaking with seventh graders in the McCray Theater.
On November 20, Jill delivered a public lecture, Journalism After Snowden: Why Freedom of the Press Matters, to a large crowd in the Meetinghouse.
Later this school year, Jill will lead a panel discussion featuring several of the industry's leading journalists.
Jill is very familiar with Quaker education. Her daughter attended high school at Sidwell Friends when Principal Bo Lauder was the Upper School Head there. In Bo's October VodCast, Jill sits down with Bo and shares her appreciation for her daughter's Quaker education.
At The New York Times, Jill was the first woman to serve as Washington Bureau Chief, Managing Editor and Executive Editor. Before joining the Times, she was Deputy Washington Bureau Chief and an investigative reporter covering money and politics at The Wall Street Journal for nine years. She is the author of three books including Strange Justice, which she wrote with Jane Mayer. Before joining Harvard's English Department as a lecturer teaching non-fiction narrative writing, she taught undergraduate writing seminars at Yale for five years and at Princeton. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and The American Philosophical Society.
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