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Salary Survey 2017: Ami Eden Of 70 Faces Media

70 Faces Media

Location: New York, NY

Category: Advocacy or Public Service

Ami Eden

CEO & Editor-in-Chief

70 Faces Media is a media group formed when The Jewish Telegraphic Agency merged with My Jewish Learning. MJL is a Jewish life and culture informational website and JTA is a news agency reporting on Jews and Jewish issues around the globe. Founded in 1917, JTA today supplies news content for over 100 Jewish publications in the United States and worldwide. From its headquarters in New York City, JTA oversees correspondents in New York, Washington, D.C., Jerusalem, and other cities. JTA seeks to cover the breadth of Jewish life and has no affiliation with any political movement or branch of Judaism.

Organization Website | Guidestar Page

Ami Eden is the first CEO and executive editor of 70 Faces Media. He joined from JTA where he began as editor-in-chief in 2008 and was appointed CEO in 2010. Eden previously worked as the executive editor of the Jewish Daily Forward and was the founding editor of the Forward website. He also served as an editor at Philadelphia’s Jewish Exponent.

2016

Institution Revenue: $4,462,662

Institution Total Expenses: $4,359,957

Employees: 29

Salary: $214,624

2014

Institution Revenue: $3,121,162

Institution Total Expenses: $2,413,179

Employees: 21

Salary: $167,942

Underpaid by: 31%

For information on previous years, see here.

For information on other Jewish nonprofits, see here.

For information on other Jewish advocacy or public service leaders, see here.

1 Interim head of organization

2 Data from 2012

3 Data from 2011

4 Data from 2010

5 Data from 2009

6 Data from 2008

7 Data from 2007

8 Includes payment from SWC Museum Corp.

9 Predecessor’s salary

10 Partial year

11 Not a 501(c)3

12 Annualized

13 Position currently vacant

14 As per Form 990, JNF declined to comment

15 Base salary

16 Data from president-elect period

17 2010 Employees

18 Legally exempt from public disclosure of salary

19 Highest paid professional, not CEO

20 Paid from two related organizations

21 Data from 2013

22 Data from 2014

23 Data from 2015

24 Includes a one-time honorarium of $55,000

25 Data from 2017

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