Bill Keller
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"Bill Keller" is an American journalist. He is a writer for The New York Times, where he was executive editor from July 2003 until September 2011. He announced on June 2, 2011, that he would step down from the position to become a full-time writer. Jill Abramson replaced him as executive editor.

Keller worked in the Times Moscow bureau from 1986 to 1991, eventually as bureau chief, spanning the Cold War (1985–91)/final years of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union. For his reporting during 1988 he won a Pulitzer Prize.

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It's a great relief to have Judy out of legal jeopardy.

Covering this war is a perilous assignment for all journalists, but the gravest risk falls on those whose country is the battleground and whose lives are inextricable from the society.

[Your curiosity was the characteristic that editors and reporters mentioned more than any other.] I think of The Times reader as curious, as someone who regards life as a continuing education, ... Each reader has a few subjects about which he or she may be passionate, even expert, and a more wide-ranging appetite that can be seduced, surprised, engaged on almost any subject if we present it well.

Judy had been one of the reporters on the receiving end of the anti-Wilson whisper campaign.

In recent days, several important things have changed that convinced Judy that she was released from her obligation.

Some of it is just, 'I can't talk to you on the phone anymore,' and some of it is, 'I think I better lay low for a while.'

Steadfastness in defense of principle has won her admiration from around the world, wherever people value a free, aggressive press.

Honored and exhilarated by the opportunity to lead the finest assembly of journalists in the world.

This news organization is a national treasure. I will do everything in my power to uphold its high standards, preserve its integrity and build on its achievements.