‘Calamity Jill’ Rises Again: Fired New York Times Editor Returns to the Public Stage

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Resilience was Jill Abramson’s theme talking to graduates, in her first public speech since being fired from The New York Times.

Published May 19 2014 6:05PM EDT

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Who was this woman who delivered the commencement speech heard ‘round the world?

Sacked New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson—speaking to thousands of graduates and their relatives Monday at Wake Forest University (and many thousands more of media-obsessives who watched her on cable or on the Web)—bore little resemblance...

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‘Calamity Jill’ Rises Again: Fired New York Times Editor Returns to the Public Stage

Resilience was Jill Abramson’s theme talking to graduates, in her first public speech since being fired from The New York Times.

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‘Calamity Jill’ Rises Again: Fired New York Times Editor Returns to the Public Stage

Resilience was Jill Abramson’s theme talking to graduates, in her first public speech since being fired from The New York Times.

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