By way of author and Huffington Post blogger Tabby Biddle comes a warm memory of Sandra Burton.
Burton was one of Time magazine’s first female correspondents. She started at the publication in 1964 as a secretary, rising to LA correspondent in 1970, Boston bureau chief in 1973, Paris correspondent in 1977, Hong Kong bureau chief in 1982 and Beijing bureau chief in 1989. She passed away in 2004.
Burton was also Jill Abramson‘s first boss, and as Abramson told Biddle during a recent interview, it turned out to be something of a bittersweet career starting point:
“She was fantastic and was incredibly encouraging to me at the very dawn of my working life,” said Jill.
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