Israel is censoring a growing number of news stories, and forced editorial changes in one story every four hours last year, according to a freedom of information request filed by +972 Magazine and the Movement for Freedom of Information. Israel’s Military Censor refused to publish 271 articles in 2017 — more than five a week…
The American Jewish Press Association honored the paper at its annual ceremony
Craig Newmark, the founder of Craigslist who arguably forced the newspaper industry to change its business model after his website cut the demand for classified ads, is giving $20 million to the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, the New York Times reported Monday. “In this time, when trustworthy news is under attack, somebody has to…
(JTA) — Harvey Levin runs the gossip industry giant TMZ. The Daily Beast reported this week that in 2016, just prior to the election, Levin did something unusual: Hearing that there was an incriminating video of Republican nominee Donald Trump in an elevator, he alerted Trump instead of his readers. David Pecker, the National Enquirer…
Andy Warhol gave the world many things, among them that iconic Campbell’s soup can, those even more iconic portraits of Marilyn Monroe, an eight-hour film of the Empire State Building from a single perspective and Interview Magazine. As of Monday, that last item, which Warhol founded in 1969, is no more. Employees of the magazine…
The writer Tom Wolfe, one of the pioneers of the literary movement known as the New Journalism — alongside the likes of Joan Didion, Gay Talese and Jimmy Breslin — passed away on Monday at age 88. Wolfe, who was notably verbose and only slightly less notably eager to get into scraps with his peers,…
(JTA) — The Chicago Jewish Star, an independent family-run newspaper, has published its final edition. The for-profit biweekly, which launched in February 1991, shut down Friday due to the industrywide decline in advertising, its owners said. Douglas Wertheimer, who served as editor, and his wife, Gila, the associate and literary editor, owned the paper. Their…
A Palestinian journalist, shot by Israeli forces while covering a protest along the Gaza-Israel border nearly two weeks ago, died of his wounds on Wednesday, Palestinian health officials said. Ahmed Abu Hussein, 24, worked for Gaza’s Al-Shaab radio station and wore a protective vest marked “Press” at the protest on April 13, witnesses said. Photos…
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