Under his editorship the bureau has gained a reputation for quality journalism as well as winning awards.
James Lee, chair of the bureau's trustees, said it was "launched and built up under Iain's editorship".
Abramson does not remember this proposal but recalls being offered the editorship of the weekly Book Review.
During his editorship Today featured investigative reports such as the recent series on child abuse within African churches.
He denies knowledge of phone hacking during his NoW editorship from 2003-07.
Abramson says that her editorship will be marked by more investigative reporting, attention to politics, cultural coverage, and searching for the story behind the public-relations announcement.
News Corp. has previously acknowledged that phone hacking took place between 2004 and 2006, a period that excludes the editorship of Rebekah Brooks, now chief executive of News International, News Corp.
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Later Mr Berezhkov was entrusted with the editorship of Soviet publications, including New Times, a foreign affairs weekly, and in the 1970s and 1980s worked in the Soviet embassy in Washington.
Paul joined Forbes in 1989 and rose to the position of senior editor at the magazine, specializing in Russian and Eastern European politics and economics, before assuming the editorship of Forbes Russia.
His critics tried to stop his appointment to the editorship of Foreign Affairs, but Kenneth Galbraith, who had links with the governing board, said the magazine was so unreadable that Mr Bundy could not do it any damage.
Appointed to the editorship at the age of 37, he could easily have had a second career in business or politics, but eschewed them for a very public role in journalism that somehow showed little of his character.
The son of Britain's first woman MP Nancy Astor, he was only 29 when he took over the editorship of the Sunday paper but went on to recruit writers such as George Orwell, Arthur Koestler and Kenneth Tynan during his 27-year tenure.
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