Jill Abramson and Irin Camron

Jill Abramson Doesn’t Want to Be a Symbol of the Backlash

The former executive editor of The New York Times explains why the book made her angry, admits to (still) counting female bylines in the paper, and defends Maureen Dowd’s brand of feminism

Irin Carmon
Matter
Published in
1 min readSep 12, 2014

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http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/jill-abramson-talks-feminism-backlash-and-the-media-328017987547

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