--- title: Jill Abramson: New York Times Fired Me Because of Management Style description: "That's what happened to me, and I've devoted my whole career to truth-telling, so why hide that?" canonical: https://time.com/2999082/jill-abramson-greta-van-susteren-new-york-times-fired/ author: Charlotte Alter article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-07-17T11:37:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:55:40.606Z og:title: Jill Abramson: New York Times Fired Me Because of Management Style og:description: "That's what happened to me, and I've devoted my whole career to truth-telling, so why hide that?" og:url: https://time.com/2999082/jill-abramson-greta-van-susteren-new-york-times-fired/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta35cc03b2d6b32ef/69869c1a06f2c175dd32fee8/jill-abramson.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: WIRED Business Conference: Think Bigger og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jill Abramson: New York Times Fired Me Because of Management Style twitter:description: "That's what happened to me, and I've devoted my whole career to truth-telling, so why hide that?" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta35cc03b2d6b32ef/69869c1a06f2c175dd32fee8/jill-abramson.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Jill Abramson Insists on Calling Herself 'Fired'  by [Charlotte Alter](https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Senior Correspondent Jul 17, 2014 11:37 AM UTC  Executive Editor of The New York Times Jill Abramson attends the WIRED Business Conference: Think Bigger at Museum of Jewish Heritage on May 7, 2013 in New York City. Executive Editor of The New York Times Jill Abramson attends the WIRED Business Conference: Think Bigger at Museum of Jewish Heritage on May 7, 2013 in New York City.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. Abramson also observed that “it’s mighty strange going from one day being an editor of stories to being the story, but I think actually it’s healthy for journalists to know what it feels like on the opposite end of the probing and questioning.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2999082/jill-abramson-greta-van-susteren-new-york-times-fired/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2999082/jill-abramson-greta-van-susteren-new-york-times-fired/"},"headline":"Jill Abramson Insists on Calling Herself 'Fired'","datePublished":"2014-07-17T11:37:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:55:40.606Z","description":"\"That's what happened to me, and I've devoted my whole career to truth-telling, so why hide that?\"","url":"https://time.com/2999082/jill-abramson-greta-van-susteren-new-york-times-fired/","keywords":["Living","gender","Media","Fox","New York Times","Workplace","sexism"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta35cc03b2d6b32ef/69869c1a06f2c175dd32fee8/jill-abramson.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Charlotte Alter","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta35cc03b2d6b32ef/69869c1a06f2c175dd32fee8/jill-abramson.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"WIRED Business Conference: Think Bigger","caption":"WIRED Business Conference: Think Bigger","creditText":"Brad Barket—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2999082/jill-abramson-greta-van-susteren-new-york-times-fired/","name":"Jill Abramson Insists on Calling Herself 'Fired'"}}]}] ```