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Salary Survey 2017: Rachel Fishman-Feddersen Of The Forward Association

By Forward Staff December 11, 2017

Forward Association

Location: New York, NY
Category: Advocacy or Public Service

Rachel Fishman-Feddersen

CEO and Publisher

The Forward Association oversees the publication of two well-known Jewish newspapers, the English-language Jewish Daily Forward and the Yiddish-language Forverts. Founded in 1897, the Forverts helped generations of Jewish immigrants adjust to life in America and today is the last remaining secular Yiddish newspaper, with a print, radio and web presence. The award-winning English-language version publishes a weekly print edition and a daily web edition, and is a leading source of news and progressive commentary about American Jewish life.

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The publisher and CEO of the Forward, Rachel Fishman-Feddersen has been an innovator in digital media since the earliest days of Silicon Valley. She has worked with audiences of many millions, as Chief Content Officer of Patch, with its 900 sites across the country; Digital GM at MentalFloss.com and TheWeek.com, thought-leading brands for millennials and global citizens; and editor-in-chief of Parenting.com. She’s won numerous awards for digital achievement from the MPA, Webby Awards, and MIN. Her site Parenting.com received an ASME nomination for General Excellence; she was named MIN’s Content Strategist of the Year in 2010; and she was inducted into the Digital Hall of Fame in 2011. That same year, she attended President Obama’s White House Summit on Digital Women. Feddersen has made regular appearances as an expert on the TODAY show and Good Morning America, as well as NPR and PBS. She serves as a member of the March of Dimes National Media Advisory Committee. She has an English degree from Amherst College and a masters degree from NYU’s Tisch Interactive Telecommunications Program. She studied Hebrew and Yiddish (along with French, Italian, German, and Spanish), and lived in Israel for a year.

2016

Institution Revenue: $4,630,229
Institution Total Expenses: $9,558,858
Employees: 49
Salary: $227,252²⁵

2014

Institution Revenue: $4,455,208
Institution Total Expenses: $8,689,195
Employees: 68
Salary: $256,207⁹
Underpaid by: 15%

For information on previous years, see here.

For information on other Jewish nonprofits, see here.

For information on other Jewish religious and education 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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