Jill Abramson: 'I Don't Want Every Story to be 1,800 Words'

In an upcoming interview with C-SPAN, Jill Abramson, the Executive Editor of the New York Times, said that one thing she will change during her time at the paper is story length.

“I don’t want every story to be 1,800 words,” said Abramson. “I think in general, we have a lot of long stories that need to be long, things like Amy Harmon’s profile of a young adult with autism, which you know was very very long, but worth every word.

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