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Fast Forward Jane Eisner, Former Forward Editor-In-Chief, Joins Columbia University’s Journalism School
Jane Eisner, the Forward’s editor-in-chief for over a decade, has taken a new position as director of academic affairs at Columbia Journalism School in New York. Eisner will oversee the graduate school’s Master of Arts programs, which offers specialized concentrations in the arts, business, science and politics. “I’m working with superb faculty and terrific students…
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News Forward Lays Off Newsroom Leaders And Goes Web-Only
The Forward Association terminated ten employees on Wednesday, including editor-in-chief Jane Eisner and other senior newsroom leaders, while announcing that it will no longer publish print editions of its English magazine and its Yiddish newspaper. The Forward has published a Yiddish newspaper since 1897, and created its modern English edition in 1990. The remaining staff…
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Life Meet The Forward’s Fearless Women In Journalism Award Recipients
Introduction By Rachel Fishman Feddersen, Forward CEO and publisher You’re about to meet five remarkable Jewish women whose achievements have helped shape journalism — and our world. With the Forward’s Fearless Women in Journalism awards, we’re doing more than honoring them. We’re thanking them. Each confronted obstacles and disproved naysayers. Lynn Povich and her Newsweek…
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Culture Covering A Polarized Community — Jane Eisner At The National Jewish Student Journalism Conference
Jane Eisner, editor-in-chief of the Forward will be appearing at the 2018 National Jewish Student Journalism Conference, a selective gathering of Jewish student writers, from 2-3:15 p.m. on May 14 at the NYU Bronfman Center (7 E. 10th St, 5th Floor, New York). She will join an editors’ roundtable called “Covering a Polarized Community” with…
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Culture Rupture And Renewal — Jane Eisner In Conversation With Jonathan Sarna
Jane Eisner, editor-in-chief of the Forward will be appearing in conversation with Jonathan Sarna the Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History and Chair of the Hornstein Jewish Professional Leadership Program at Brandeis University. The Center for Jewish History will host the event at 7pm on Wednesday May 16. Professor Sarna…
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Culture See ‘RBG’ The Movie – Plus Jane Eisner In Conversation With The Directors
On May 1, come to the Marlene Meyerson JCC in Manhattan to see “RBG” before it arrives in the theaters. After the screening, Forward editor-in-chief Jane Eisner will interview the directors Julie Cohen and Betsy West. They will discuss the making of the film and how a Jewish lawyer ended up revolutionizing gender imbalance in…
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Culture What I Learned From Interviewing Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court Superhero
Follow Ruth Bader Ginsburg onto a stage, and you will have an extraordinary experience. It’s not that she makes a grand entrance. Quite the contrary — her frame is so tiny, her gait is so slow, that she appears to want to slide meekly into a room rather than take it by storm. But then…
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