NYC Radio: Jill Abramson Talks With WABC

In one of her first interviews since abruptly being fired as executive editor of The New York Times in May, Jill Abramson said that she had "few regrets and only good feelings" about the nearly two decades she spent working for the paper of record, according to capitalnewyork.com.

"I look back on it with a lot of pride because I had a wonderful career at The New York Times, and I loved being a reporter and editor there," Abramson told hosts Pat Kiernan and Rita Cosby during their 5pm afternoon radio show on Talk WABC 770 AM.

She woudln't discuss recent articles, however, claiming that part of the reason for her termination had to do with pay disparity concerns she reportedly raised with Times publisher and chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr.

"I'm past the point of wanting to rehash those issues," she said, quickly reasserting herself when pressed by Cosby: "I'm not gonna talk about that."

MT @kbsmoke: "For any journalist, it's an odd feeling to be the story yourself," Jill Abramson tells @patkiernan and @RitaCosby on WABC.
— Pat Kiernan (@patkiernan) July 15, 2014

Abramson's departure from the Times, where she led the paper to eight Pulitzer Prizes while grappling with the ongoing digital transformation of the news industry, played out in iterative reports each floating a new piece of the puzzle about what may or may not have led to her firing by Sulzberger, and her replacement by Dean Baquet, who had been Abramson's no. 2.

Abramson had been keeping her head down ever since. But now she's on a bit of media tour, showing a willingness to publicly address certain aspects of the drama.

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