How to Deal With the Media, With Jill Abramson
This week of update, we spoke to a live audience at On Air Fest with journalist Jill Abramson, the first female executive editor of the New York Times and co-author of Strange Justice: The Sale of Clarence Thomas . Jill is currently a political columnist for The Guardian and a senior lecturer at the Harvard School of English. Her next book, News Wars , is due out in 2019.
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Discussed in this episode
- The transformative role of social media in everything
- How Twitter Addiction Can Disrupt Journalists’ Work
- How to change your political news consumption to stay sane
- What it feels like to be the person who breaks the news and sometimes the person who creates the news
- How do you maintain a reporter’s credibility when people attack you as a guerrilla?
- How polarized the media has become
- Qualities used to describe women in power
- Changes that will happen with the movement “Me too”
- What Jill tells her students who want to be reporters
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