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Category Archives: JTA
Trump Meets With Orthodox Jews
JTA – There were a few things Donald Trump made clear when he met Thursday with a select group of Jewish reporters, almost all of them Orthodox, at his corporate offices in Manhattan. Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly was the … Continue reading
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Jewish Telegraphic Agency Salaries
I went to Guidestar.org and found this 990 form filed for 2012, which listed salaries as follows: Ami Eden (Editor): $173,387 Lenore Silverstein: $119,088 Nancy Clayman: $114,892 Uriel Heilman: $103,895
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The Editorial Board At Jewschool
Jewschool.com apparently does not have bloggers. It has an "editorial board." Holy hell! Who came up with that term? Could it be the founder of Jewschool.com, the Orthodox Anarchist Dan Sieradski? Jewschool consistently gets about half the traffic of this … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Daniel Sieradski, Jewish Journalism, Jewschool, JTA
Tagged anti zionist, engagement opportunities, holy hell, jewish establishment, Jewschool, open revolt
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How Did A Pot-Smoking Anarchist Become The Guardian Of The Conventional Morality?
JTA’s head of digital media, Daniel Sierardski, writes: One phenomenon that appears to be accelerating the decline of at least some Jewish news organizations is the rise of a group of Jewish news aggregation Web sites, predominantly serving the ultra-Orthodox … Continue reading
Posted in Daniel Sieradski, Jewish Journalism, Journalism, JTA
Tagged jewish news, jewish newspapers, least effort, newspapers around the world, search traffic, unauthorized web
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JTA’s New Media Guru Sets Me Straight
Daniel Sieradski aka Orthodox Anarchist, JTA’s director of digital media, posts to my blog: Luke, tell me, since you got rid of your porn gossip site, who actually pays you to write for them? Aren’t you, by your own admission … Continue reading
Posted in Daniel Sieradski, JTA
Tagged commission junction affiliate, David Kelsey, dozen staff members, media guru, media posts, porn gossip
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JTA Struggles To Survive
Steven Ira Weiss blogs: In a new twist on what’s become the near-constant pleading for donations from JTA, President Elisa Spungen Bildner insults producers of new media explicitly: Without a strong JTA, the storytelling will be left to bloggers, twitterers, … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Jewish Journalism, Journalism, JTA, Steven I. Weiss
Tagged bildner, Jewish Journal, jewish media, jewish newspapers, media producers, philadelphia jewish exponent
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I Love JTA
JTA president Elisa Spungen Bildner, who I am sure earns many times what I do, emails me for money: It is how we hand down our culture to the generations. Next week we will gather with family and friends to … Continue reading
Posted in Jewish Journalism, Journalism, JTA
Tagged bildner, economic downturn, hellip, madoff, netanyahu, obama
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JTA & Duplicate Content
I got this email today from JTA.org: Hey Luke, I’m sure you remember me from my Jewschool days. Just a heads up: JTA’s pretty adamant about making sure that people don’t reprint our content in full if they’re not paying … Continue reading
Posted in FailedMessiah, Journalism, JTA
Tagged death bed, exclusivity, investment pool, jewish community foundation, Los Angeles Times, mainstream media, profit news, takedown notice
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JTA Vs The Blogosphere
Jewlicious reports: To summarize, the JTA sent out a fundraising letter that insulted bloggers and tweeters. The JBloggers got pissed and the JTA backtracked. That should have been the end of it right? But then the Forward picked up the … Continue reading →