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Yair Rosenberg joins The New York Times | Editor and Publisher
Yair Rosenberg joins The New York Times | Editor and Publisher
Nothing powers a beat like a steady stream of good story ideas. Yair Rosenberg is more like a monsoon.
Over the course of 15 years chronicling Jewish life in America and abroad, Yair has taken on the biggest, thorniest stories on the beat. First at Tablet magazine and most recently at The Atlantic, he’s driven agenda-setting coverage of rising antisemitism around the world and the widening political divides among American and Israeli Jews.
But Yair knows better than most that these fraught moments are not all that define Jewish life today – not even close. And so he’s taken readers inside Albert Einstein’s friendship with an orthodox rabbi. He’s explained why Joe Biden appeared to have trouble spelling Hanukkah consistently. He’s gotten to the bottom of how that one character on the TV show “Firefly” came to be Jewish.
Now, Yair will bring that boundless energy and deep expertise to a new religion beat on National focused on Jewish American life, chronicling a period of extraordinary tension but also possibility and reinvention.
“There is no reporter with sharper insights about what animates American Jews, no one w…
Yair Rosenberg Joins The Times | The New York Times Company
Yair Rosenberg Joins The Times | The New York Times Company
Yair, who’s taken on the biggest stories of Jewish life in America over 15 years, joins National on the religion beat. Read more in this note from Nestor Ramos.
Nothing powers a beat like a steady stream of good story ideas. Yair Rosenberg is more like a monsoon.
Over the course of 15 years chronicling Jewish life in America and abroad, Yair has taken on the biggest, thorniest stories on the beat. First at Tablet magazine and most recently at The Atlantic, he’s driven agenda-setting coverage of rising antisemitism around the world and the widening political divides among American and Israeli Jews.
But Yair knows better than most that these fraught moments are not all that define Jewish life today – not even close. And so he’s taken readers inside Albert Einstein’s friendship with an orthodox rabbi. He’s explained why Joe Biden appeared to have trouble spelling Hanukkah consistently. He’s gotten to the bottom of how that one character on the TV show “Firefly” came to be Jewish.
Now, Yair will bring that boundless energy and deep expertise to a new religion beat on National focused on Jewish American life, chronicling a…
New York Times hires Atlantic's Yair Rosenberg to cover Jewish American ...
New York Times hires Atlantic's Yair Rosenberg to cover Jewish American ...
The New York Times has hired Atlantic staff writer Yair Rosenberg to launch a national beat covering Jewish American life, bringing a widely known journalist on antisemitism and Jewish affairs to a newspaper whose coverage of Israel and the Jewish community has been under unusually intense scrutiny since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack.
The appointment, announced Monday by National Editor Nestor Ramos, creates a dedicated beat focused on American Jews at a moment when questions of antisemitism, Israel, religious identity and political polarization have moved to the center of public debate.
It is the first time that the newspaper, published in the city with the world’s largest Jewish population, has a beat dedicated to Jews.
“Over the course of 15 years chronicling Jewish life in America and abroad, Yair has taken on the biggest, thorniest stories on the beat,” Ramos wrote in a memo to staff. “Now, Yair will bring that boundless energy and deep expertise to a new religion beat on National focused on Jewish American life, chronicling a period of extraordinary tension but also possibility and reinvention.”
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New York Times hires Atlantic's Yair Rosenberg to cover Jewish ...
New York Times hires Atlantic's Yair Rosenberg to cover Jewish ...
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New York Times hires Atlantic’s Yair Rosenberg to cover Jewish American life
The paper creates a new beat about Jews at a time of communal anguish and criticism of the Times’ coverage of Israel.
Yair Rosenberg, who writes The Atlantic's "Deep Shtetl" newsletter, was named to a new religion beat at The New York Times focused on Jewish American life. (Yair Rosenberg; Adam Jones/Wikimedia Commons)
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The New York Times has hired Atlantic staff writer Yair Rosenberg to launch a national beat covering Jewish American life, bringing a widely known journalist on antisemitism and Jewish affairs to a newspaper whose coverage of Israel and the Jewish community has been under unusually intense scrutiny since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack.
The appointment, announced Monday by National Editor Nestor Ramos, creates a dedicated beat focused on American Jews at a moment when questions of antisemitism, Israel, religious identity and political polarization have moved to the center of public debate.
It is the first time…
New York Times hires Atlantic’s Yair Rosenberg to cover Jewish American life
New York Times hires Atlantic’s Yair Rosenberg to cover Jewish American life
<p>Hire comes as the Times continues to navigate a complicated relationship with many Jewish readers, especially after October 7; Rosenberg has critiqued its coverage before</p>
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2×broadly confirmedThe New York Times hired Yair Rosenberg from The Atlantic to cover Jewish American life.
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timesofisrael“New York Times hires Atlantic’s Yair Rosenberg to cover Jewish American life”
clevelandjewishnews.com“The New York Times has hired Atlantic staff writer Yair Rosenberg to launch a national beat covering Jewish American life”
2×broadly confirmedThe New York Times' coverage of Israel and the Jewish community has been under intense scrutiny since the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack.
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timesofisrael“Hire comes as the Times continues to navigate a complicated relationship with many Jewish readers, especially after October 7”
clevelandjewishnews.com“a newspaper whose coverage of Israel and the Jewish community has been under unusually intense scrutiny since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack.”
1×cross-perspective · 2The New York Times has a new religion beat on National focused on Jewish American life.
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editorandpublisher.com“Now, Yair will bring that boundless energy and deep expertise to a new religion beat on National focused on Jewish American life”
clevelandjewishnews.com“creates a dedicated beat focused on American Jews”
1×cross-perspective · 2Yair Rosenberg previously worked at Tablet magazine and The Atlantic.
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editorandpublisher.com“First at Tablet magazine and most recently at The Atlantic”
clevelandjewishnews.com“The New York Times has hired Atlantic staff writer Yair Rosenberg”
1×broadly confirmedYair Rosenberg has 15 years of experience chronicling Jewish life in America and abroad.
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editorandpublisher.com“Over the course of 15 years chronicling Jewish life in America and abroad”
nytco.com“Yair, who’s taken on the biggest stories of Jewish life in America over 15 years”
1×cross-perspective · 2Yair Rosenberg has covered rising antisemitism and political divides among American and Israeli Jews.
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editorandpublisher.com“he’s driven agenda-setting coverage of rising antisemitism around the world and the widening political divides among American and Israeli Jews.”
clevelandjewishnews.com“bringing a widely known journalist on antisemitism and Jewish affairs”
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The New York Times National Editor Nestor Ramos announced the appointment.
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This is the first time the New York Times has a beat dedicated to Jews.
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timesofisrael
“Hire comes as the Times continues to navigate a complicated relationship with many Jewish readers, especially after October 7; Rosenberg has critiqued its coverage before”
→ The Times has a complicated relationship with Jewish readers and Rosenberg has previously critiqued the Times.
editorandpublisher.com
“Nothing powers a beat like a steady stream of good story ideas. Yair Rosenberg is more like a monsoon.”
→ Yair Rosenberg generates a large volume of story ideas.
editorandpublisher.com
“Over the course of 15 years chronicling Jewish life in America and abroad, Yair has taken on the biggest, thorniest stories on the beat.”
→ Yair Rosenberg has covered significant and difficult stories about Jewish life.
editorandpublisher.com
“But Yair knows better than most that these fraught moments are not all that define Jewish life today – not even close.”
→ Yair Rosenberg believes that recent tensions do not fully define Jewish life.
clevelandjewishnews.com
“creates a dedicated beat focused on American Jews at a moment when questions of antisemitism, Israel, religious identity and political polarization have moved to the center of public debate.”
→ The beat is created during a period of public debate regarding antisemitism, Israel, religious identity, and political polarization.
clevelandjewishnews.com
““Over the course of 15 years chronicling Jewish life in America and abroad, Yair has taken on the biggest, thorniest stories on the beat,” Ramos wrote in a memo to staff.”
→ Nestor Ramos stated that Yair Rosenberg has covered the biggest and thorniest stories on the beat.
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