Tag: Journalism
Marc Klein, pioneering editor and journalist in California, dies at 75
Marc Klein, who fought to protect independent Jewish journalism in the San Francisco Bay Area, died on May 25 from the complications of a transplant-related cancer. He was 75 years old.
For 28 years, he...
At 80, American Jewish Press Association grapples with past, present and future
For the American Jewish Press Association, 2024 has been a landmark year in several ways.
The organization, which is celebrating its 80th anniversary, is planning at its annual conference in early June to detail the...
Tlaib honors Palestinian ‘journalist’ who celebrated Oct. 7 terrorist attacks
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), a member of the so-called progressive “Squad” in the U.S. House of Representatives and a frequent critic of the Jewish state, recognized a Palestinian “journalist”—who celebrated Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist...
Campus rally challenges Missouri award for photo of Shani Louk’s body
A prestigious award given by the University of Missouri to a photojournalist who took an image depicting the half-naked body of Shani Louk, a 22-year-old Israeli murdered by Hamas terrorists at the Nova music...
UN credibility on Israel, Palestinians ‘in serious doubt,’ after error about Gazan ‘journalist’
A United Nations office stands corrected after having “verified” the death of someone whom it referred to as a Gazan journalist. But despite the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights assuring...
Investigation explodes myth that Israel targets journalists
Despite Israel’s herculean efforts to avoid killing noncombatants in the Gaza Strip, a new wrinkle has been added to media charges of indiscriminate Israeli killing—a kind of blood libel within a blood libel—namely that...
Photographer’s award praised by ‘Times’ same day he’s named in lawsuit
Meaghan Looram, director of photography at The New York Times, praised on Feb. 21 the “fearless and compassionate work” of Yousef Masoud, who just won a George Polk Award in Journalism for his photography related to the...
HonestReporting Canada persuades ‘CBC’ to retract Palestinian history claim
An article published by CBC News titled “B.C. minister under fire for comments about Middle East before creation of Israeli state” received multiple corrections following a critique from HonestReporting Canada.
The reporting focused on comments by Selina Robinson, British Columbia’s minister...
Gaza photojournalists accused of Oct. 7 war crimes
Two Gaza-based Palestinian photojournalists who infiltrated Israel during Hamas’s massacres on Oct. 7 committed war crimes, experts say.
“I believe that this is clearly an incidence that would come under and be covered by both...
‘BBC’ in English is in many ways worse about Israel than ‘BBC Arabic’
On Sunday evening, Dec. 10, I gave my third interview for BBC Arabic TV since Oct. 7, a station that has a combined audience of tens of millions in the Middle East and Europe, as well as online.
Two...