Danny Schechter, the self-described progenitor of “participatory journalism” who died March 19, first burst onto my radar screen back in the late 1970s, when I was working at WBAI-FM, the left-leaning community-sponsored radio station. One day, while laboring there, I heard a news story come in from Boston with an inordinate amount of reggae music…
Getty Images (JTA) – Sending a yarmulke-wearing man out with a hidden video camera to document anti-Semitism on the streets of Europe, particularly in Muslim neighborhoods, is quickly becoming a journalistic trope. First, in January, a reporter wearing a kippah walked around the heavily Muslim neighborhood of Malmo, Sweden, where he was assaulted and cursed…
The tragic death of Bob Simon in a car crash in New York last week has brought much attention to his remarkable career as a foreign and “60 Minutes” correspondent. For a significant part his life — over 20 years — he lived in Israel. It is there where we met, developed and continued a…
Cleveland Jewish News columnist Violet Spevack is retiring after nearly 50 years with the weekly newspaper. Spevack, 98, is believed to have written the longest continuously published weekly column in the country, according to the Cleveland Jewish News. She announced her retirement on Jan. 30 in her final column. Spevack began her popular “Cavalcade” column…
David Landau, who has died at the age of 67, was one of Israel’s leading journalists. Editor-in-chief of Haaretz from 2004 to 2008, he was the founding editor of the paper’s English-language edition in 1997. To the casual observer, Landau may have appeared something of an enigma. Provocative and forthright on one hand, yet hugely…
As the photographer of the photo discussed in a December 12 article, “Iconic Mideast Photo Is a Fake — and a Heartbreaking One at That,” I am angered by the charge that the photo is “faked.” The article reveals a lack of understanding of the difference between a faked photo, which misrepresents reality, and a…
(JTA) — The departure of most of the editorial team at The New Republic – including Franklin Foer, Leon Wieseltier, Judith Shulevitz and Julia Ioffe – didn’t just blow a hole in the landscape of American journalism. It also threw into doubt the future of what has long been a primary address for American Jewish thought….
Photographer Kitra Cahana on the hills overlooking Ramallah / Ed Ou Editor’s Note: The Forward’s story “Iconic Mideast Photo Is a Fake — and Heartbreaking One at That” generated a lot of debate about the ethics of staging photographs. For added insight, we put a few questions to Kitra Cahana, a documentary photojournalist whose work…
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