Jill Abramson on Putting the Public Interest First

By: Jill Abramson | CJR

One of the most memorable conversations I had at The New York Times was with Punch Sulzberger. I came to his chairman emeritus office to interview him about the Pentagon Papers for a speech I was giving. Punch recalled that right before the Times published the first stories based on Daniel Ellsberg’s leak of the classified Vietnam study, he was gardening at his weekend estate.