{"id":1896,"date":"2008-01-07T09:49:20","date_gmt":"2008-01-07T16:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1896"},"modified":"2008-01-07T10:00:36","modified_gmt":"2008-01-07T16:48:36","slug":"jewish-views-tales-of-two-newspapers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1896","title":{"rendered":"Jewish views: Tales of two newspapers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/inquirer\/local\/20080106_Jewish_views__Tales_of_two_newspapers.html\">Carlin Romano writes in the Philadelphia Daily News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jewish newspapering remains alive and well.<\/p>\n<p>As 2008 begins, the Exponent, which hasn&#8217;t missed an issue since debuting in 1887, comes off its 120th anniversary year in the black, with a circulation of about 50,000. The Manhattan-based Forward, having celebrated its own 110th anniversary as a Yiddish paper last year, continues as two weeklies: the Yiddish version, with a circulation &quot;well under&quot; 10,000, and the English-language version begun in 1990.<\/p>\n<p>The latter enjoys a circulation of 33,380, a devoted following among opinion-makers, and a mission, quips Goldberg, 58, &quot;to teach Americans how to be Jewish.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The Exponent, according to Tobin, didn&#8217;t have to teach its readers much of anything.<\/p>\n<p>Sitting in his Arch Street office, Tobin, 53, explains that the Exponent, founded by Philadelphia businessmen, spoke to a community whose &quot;leadership was already very much part of America, part of Philadelphia, sort of feeling its oats.&quot; Unlike the Forward, notes Tobin, executive editor of his paper for more than nine years, &quot;the Exponent has always been in English.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Those early differences help explain enduring ones.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;This is the newspaper of record for the Jewish community of this region,&quot; continues Tobin, a native New Yorker. &quot;Generations of people have had their births, engagements, weddings and obituaries published in our newspaper. . . . That&#8217;s important.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Regional Jewish newspapers in the Exponent&#8217;s league include the Baltimore Jewish Times. Chicago and Miami don&#8217;t support a comparable paper despite Jewish communities larger than Philadelphia&#8217;s, which numbers more than 200,000 as well as 100 synagogues and schools in its five-county area, according to Tobin.<\/p>\n<p>Even other elite regionals, says Tobin, &quot;are not as old, and don&#8217;t have as powerful a hold on their communities.&quot; Thanks to plentiful ads, the Exponent frequently runs more than 70 tabloid pages long.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlin Romano writes in the Philadelphia Daily News: Jewish newspapering remains alive and well. As 2008 begins, the Exponent, which hasn&#8217;t missed an issue since debuting in 1887, comes off its 120th anniversary year in the black, with a circulation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1896\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[167],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jewish-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}