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April was an unusual, if not the cruelest, month for New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson, who in September will mark t

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问题     April was an unusual, if not the cruelest, month for New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson, who in September will mark two years on the job. On Monday afternoon, April 15, Abramson—who, at 59, is the first woman to serve as top editor in the Times’ 160-year history— had barely begun savoring the four Pulitzer Prizes that her staff had just won when the Boston Marathon bombings occurred. Pulling an all-nighter at one point in the third-floor newsroom of the Times’ Renzo Piano-designed Manhattan skyscraper, she presided over a breathless week of "flooding the zone", while her reporters and editors managed to avoid the sort of embarrassing errors committed by the Associated Press, CNN, and even the Times Co. -owned Boston Globe.
    Then, the night of April 23, Politico—the Washington trade paper that aims to "drive the conversation"—published a story suggesting that Abramson’s young editorship was already a failure. Quoting anonymous former and current Times employees, Politico claimed she was widely considered "stubborn," "condescending," "difficult to work with," "unreasonable," "impossible," "disengaged," and "uncaring"—"on the verge of losing the support of the newsroom."
    A petite woman who speaks in an exaggerated Upper West Side drawl that evokes The Nanny Meets Harvard, Abramson was home alone in Tribeca the night the story broke. Her husband of 32 years, Henry Griggs, was out, as were their two adult children, when she read it online.
    Running The New York Times has never been for the faint of heart. Abramson’s 23 months at the wheel have been punctuated by the death in Syria of Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent Anthony Shadid, a bitter contract dispute with the Newspaper Guild, and, seven months ago, forced buyouts of around 30 midlevel editors, including some of the Times’ most beloved veterans.
    Yet, unique in an industry plagued by cutbacks and shutdowns, Abramson’s newsroom is staffed at the same level as it was a decade ago, and boasts 14 national and six regional bureaus, plus 25 foreign bureaus—more than at any moment in the paper’s history. This is in complete contrast to such newspapers as The Washington Post, which over the past decade closed all its domestic bureaus and reduced drastically the head count in its newsroom, once more than 900, by nearly a fourth. Meanwhile, the Times’ risky transition from free to metered online access appears to be working: the Web edition boasts more than 700,000 paying subscribers.
    Abramson, for her part, might have to leave her current job in six years, but she doesn’t see herself ever stopping work. "In terms of my professional life, I always felt a little happy that my husband and I never had much money. I never had to go through the should-l-stay-at-home conversation. I also wanted to work, because I really liked it. " She adds: "They’re gonna have to take me out feet first, or chop off my head. "
What measure did Jill take after she became the executive editor?
选项 A、She expanded The New York Times’ foreign bureaus.
B、She encouraged reporters to compete for the Pulitzer Prize.
C、She changed The New York Times’ online subscription policy.
D、She set stricter requirement on errors in the reports.
答案C
解析 事实细节题。文章第四、五段描述了吉尔成为执行主编的举措，其中第五段最后一句提到，《纽约时报》的网上内容由免费转为按量付费，这一举措收到了不错的效果，付费订阅者的数量超过了70万。由此可知，吉尔就任之后，网上订阅的政策有所改变，因此选[C]。该段提到《纽约时报》拥有14个全国性部门，6个地区性部门，还有25个国外分部，这是史无前例的，但并没有说吉尔扩大了海外分部的规模或数量，故排除[A]；文章中没有提到吉尔鼓励员_丁竞争普利策奖，故排除[B]；虽然第一段最后一句提到了她的员工在避免错误，但没有说吉尔上任以后对出错率的态度，故排除[D]。
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