Jill Abramson, the new executive editor of the New York Times, has already distanced herself from departing editor Bill Keller's war of words against Arianna Huffington and other news aggregators.
"I've known Arianna Huffington since the early '90s in Washington — she is an inventive person," said Abramson in an interview Thursday with CNN. "I certainly don't want to be in a war with her."
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Abramson was grilled on last night's "John King, USA" program, hours after the Times named her the paper's first-ever female editor.
When asked by national political correspondent Jessica Yellin if sites like the Huffington Post were hurting journalism, Abramson replied, "I wouldn't go that far.