Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey, and Ronan Farrow, on behalf of The New York Times and The New Yorker, respectively, received a Pulitzer Prize in Public Service today for their extraordinary investigative journalism surrounding allegations against Harvey Weinstein. And how did the women responsible for unleashing the information that started a movement for women’s rights and…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Openly breaking with Benjamin Netanyahu, Ronald Lauder, the president of the World Jewish Congress, said current Israeli government policies threaten Israel’s democratic character and even its existence. Lauder, in an Op-Ed on Monday in the New York Times, also pressed hard for a two-state solution, significant because the cosmetics billionaire has the…
Five women have accused Richard Meier, a Pritzker Prize-winning architect famous for designing Los Angeles’s Getty Center, of sexual misconduct, according to a March 13 New York Times article. The alleged episodes span 30 years and include descriptions of groping, indecent exposure and forcible kissing. After being informed of the allegations, Meier announced that he…
The New York Times announced a new hire on Tuesday afternoon. And then reversed the decision Tuesday night after Twitter users showed the writer’s tweets using homophobic slurs and bragging about befriending neo-Nazis, the Washington Post reported. The Times’ editorial board announced it had hired Quinn Norton, a technology blogger, to be its lead opinion…
NEW YORK (JTA) — The New York Times said Glenn Thrush, who was suspended following allegations he made unwanted advances toward female journalists, will resume reporting duties. The Times said on Wednesday that Thrush will be suspended until late January and then return to work. However, the paper said Thrush, who was its prominent Washington,…
The ongoing fallout from the controversial New York Times profile of Tony Hovater, a young promoter of racist and neo-Nazi ideology, has had an unexpected side effect. It is shining a spotlight on GoyFundMe, a new online crowdfunding platform for racists, white supremacists and other fringe political players, banned from mainstream platforms and online services….
A white nationalist “Nazi sympathizing” husband and wife in Ohio reportedly lost their jobs after a New York Times profile broadcast their story worldwide. Now the two are soliciting money on an “alt-right” website called “Goy Fund Me” and have raised more than $5,000. The couple in the NYT Nazi article apparently have gotten fired…
On November 25, the New York Times published an incredible piece of journalism, a profile of a Nazi sympathizer in mainstream rural America. The piece, A Voice of Hate in America’s Heartland, describes how a Midwestern guy-next-door came to develop pro-Nazi and white nationalist sympathies. What was shocking was not that Tony Hovater held the…
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