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Brad Barket—Getty Images  by [Charlotte Alter](https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Senior Correspondent Jul 17, 2014 11:37 AM UTC Jill Abramson insisted [Greta Van Susteren](http://gretawire.foxnewsinsider.com/video/video-fired-new-york-times-executive-editor-jill-abramson-on-her-firing/) call her “fired New York Times editor” in her first television interview Wednesday since her contentious departure from the newspaper in May. “That’s what happened to me, and I’ve devoted my whole career to truth-telling, so why hide that?” Abramson said on Fox News’s _On the Record_. “And there are an awful lot of people in this country who, like me, have been fired from their jobs.” Abramson didn’t assign any specific blame for her firing, but did allude to the whispers that her firing was more about her personal demeanor than professional accomplishments. “It was said because my management style. I was a hard-charging editor, and there were some people who worked for me that didn’t like that style,” she said. “Women in leadership roles are scrutinized constantly and sometimes differently than men…there are certain code words: ‘strident,’ ‘too tough.'” But she doesn’t think it was only about gender. “Plenty of guys get fired,” she said. 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