April 2, 2013
DALLAS (SMU) — SMU Dedman School of Law will host New York Times Executive Editor Jill Abramson as part of an endowed lecture series in April.
Abramson, the first female executive editor of
The New York Times, is featured speaker for the Louise B. Raggio Endowed Lecture Series. She will speak on "Protecting Quality Journalism" at 7 p.m. April 22 at the Belo Mansion, 2101 Ross Ave., Dallas.
Ms. Abramson succeeded Bill Keller as executive editor of The New York Times on September 6, 2011.
She was previously the managing editor, a position she had held since 2003. As managing editor, Ms. Abramson had been one of Mr. Keller’s two top deputies overseeing the entire newsroom. Her selection was something of a departure for The Times, an institution that had historically chosen executive editors who had ascended the ranks through postings in overseas bureaus and managing desks like Foreign or Metropolitan.
She came to The Times in 1997 from The Wall Street Journal, where she was a deputy bureau chief and an investigative reporter for nine years. She rose quickly at The Times, becoming Washington editor in 1999 and then bureau chief in 2000.
In 2010, Ms. Abramson stepped aside temporarily from her day-to-day duties as managing editor to help run The Times’s online operations, a move she asked to make so she could develop fuller, firsthand experience with the integration of the digital and print staffs.
Tickets for the Law School event are $25 and are available by registering online at law.smu.edu or contacting Rebekah Bell at 214-768-4177 or rbell@smu.edu.
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