70 Faces Media, the biggest and most various Jewish media firm in North America, has named veteran journalist Hilary Krieger as govt editor of the Jewish Telegraphic Company and New York Jewish Week.
Krieger will lead a revamped editorial imaginative and prescient for 70 Faces Media’s flagship information manufacturers — strengthening JTA’s function because the main supply of unique, unbiased reporting on points shaping the Jewish world, whereas remodeling New York Jewish Week right into a dynamic platform for concepts, opinion and cultural discourse.
Based in 1917, JTA has lengthy served because the Jewish neighborhood’s central information service, reaching audiences instantly by way of its digital platforms and a syndication community of roughly 60 associate publications in the USA, Israel and all over the world. New York Jewish Week covers the tradition, politics and day by day lifetime of the nation’s largest Jewish neighborhood.
In her new function, Krieger will oversee a workforce of editors throughout each manufacturers and work with the corporate’s viewers improvement, know-how and enterprise groups. JTA Editor in Chief Philissa Cramer will proceed to steer the corporate’s award-winning information protection. Andrew Silow-Carroll, editor at giant and a former editor of each publications, may even play a essential function.
“We dwell in a time when Jewish audiences are looking for each reliable, unbiased reporting and considerate views that assist them make sense of a fancy world,” mentioned Ami Eden, CEO and govt editor of 70 Faces Media. “Hilary brings the correct mix of journalistic excellence and trade expertise to assist our editors do much more to satisfy this essential want, whereas working with our viewers and know-how groups to make sure we have now the best digital technique to achieve customers the place they’re.”
Krieger, an award-winning editor, beforehand served because the Washington bureau chief for The Jerusalem Submit and has held senior editorial roles throughout main information organizations, together with Politico, CNN, NBC Information and U.S. Information and World Report. She has contributed op-eds to The New York Instances, The Wall Avenue Journal and The Washington Submit, the place she additionally served as an editor. Raised in Boston and at the moment residing in Princeton, New Jersey, she served as editor in chief of The Cornell Day by day Solar after which spent 5 years in Israel as a correspondent masking world Jewry and diplomacy for The Jerusalem Submit and later the Israeli and Palestinian economies for American Public Media’s “Market” earlier than returning to the USA.
“By no means in my lifetime has the necessity for correct, informative and trusted information and opinion protection of the Jewish neighborhood been so essential as at this second,” Krieger mentioned. “I’m thrilled to be becoming a member of such gifted colleagues and honored to be taking up the very important function of charting the trail ahead on the solely information group devoted to masking the complete breadth of world Jewish expertise.”
70 Faces Media’s portfolio additionally contains My Jewish Studying, the biggest training platform serving Jews from completely different denominations and people with no synagogue affiliation, and a trio of life-style manufacturers: Kveller, Hey Alma and The Nosher. The mixed properties are serving hundreds of thousands of month-to-month customers instantly, along with serving hundreds of thousands extra by way of the JTA syndication community, that includes 60 Jewish and Israeli media shops all over the world.
The corporate is an trade chief in serving to a whole bunch of Jewish nonprofits attain larger audiences and inform higher tales, by way of built-in promoting campaigns, content material partnerships and digital coaching. The cornerstone of this work is the annual Jewish Digital Summit, a three-day digital gathering that includes dozens of classes aimed toward serving to Jewish nonprofit professionals strengthen their digital expertise. In all, 860 attendees from about 500 Jewish organizations took half on this 12 months’s summit.
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