{"id":7648,"date":"2008-12-22T09:31:21","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T17:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=7648"},"modified":"2008-12-22T09:53:30","modified_gmt":"2008-12-22T17:53:30","slug":"inside-the-jewish-news-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=7648","title":{"rendered":"Inside The Jewish News Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s the Jewish Telegraphic Agency’s 990 filing for 2007<\/a>. 2006<\/a>. 2005<\/a>. JTA website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I was surprised that JTA’s revenues are half those of the Jewish Journal. JTA gets half of its income from charity while the Journal gets zero.<\/p>\n

Mark J. Joffe, JTA Editor and Publisher, made $144, 645 in 2007. That’s about five times what I made in 2007. Yet he has the balls to send me fundraising letters.<\/p>\n

On Dec. 18, I got this from him: "I’m writing because I really do need your help. I want JTA to be able to continue providing you with the same high-quality coverage of news and issues affecting Israel and the Jewish People that we did this past year."<\/p>\n

Well, if JTA is so important, why don’t you cut your salary in half?<\/p>\n

Lenore Silverstein, JTA’s director of finance, made $93,482 in 2007. Ronald Kampeas, Washington D.C. bureau chief, made $84, 637. Administrators Benjamin Harris and Deborah Brown made $55,4023 and $53,390. Editor Marc Brodsky made $51,416.<\/p>\n

Here are the Jewish Journal<\/a> tax returns for:<\/p>\n

* 2007<\/a>
\n* 2006<\/a>
\n* 2005<\/a><\/p>\n

I was struck that the Jewish Journal operation routinely clears over $2 million dollars a year from community notices. Nice. They had a total income of $4.164 million in 2007.<\/p>\n

Rob Eshman made $157,500 in 2007. CEO Kimberly Sax made $157,500. Sales executives: Shoshana Cohen $142,560, Antoinette Van Ness $115,657. Controller Amos Shaya $100,000.<\/p>\n

In 2006: The Jewish Journal brought in $4.35 million.<\/p>\n

Its highest paid employees were:<\/p>\n

* Kimber Sax $152,884
\n* Rob Eshman $150,000
\n* Amos Shaya $128,423
\n* Shoshana Cohen $113,755
\n* Antoinette Van Ness $108,623
\n* Lionel Ochoa $92,730
\n* Jennifer Goldberg $75,043<\/p>\n

How come I can’t find The Jewish Week<\/a> on Guidestar<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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