At The Jewish Week, a Rare Changing of the Guard (original) (raw)
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Andrew Silow-Carroll, editor in chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, will take over that role at The Jewish Week, replacing a 26-year veteran.Credit...American Jewish Press Association
- Aug. 1, 2019
The Jewish Week, the largest Jewish community newspaper for the largest Jewish community outside Israel — that would be New York City’s — has announced its first new editor since 1993.
Andrew Silow-Carroll, the editor in chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, a news wire service, will assume the editorship next month, when The Jewish Week’s longtime editor and publisher, Gary Rosenblatt, steps back. Rich Waloff, currently the associate publisher, will take over as publisher, Mr. Rosenblatt said.
The changes were announced a week after The Forward, the national Jewish newspaper that recently ended its print edition, named Jodi Rudoren, a New York Times managing editor, its next editor in chief.
Mr. Silow-Carroll, 58, said he wanted the paper to stay in the center of Jewish communal life, politically and otherwise, as it tries to survive despite a sharp decline in synagogue affiliation and a media environment that has decimated print weeklies. The Jewish Week’s print circulation has slipped to around 40,000, from more than 65,000 in 2005, according to Mr. Waloff.
“It has to reach out to a new generation, which unfortunately doesn’t have the same habits of journalism or Judaism,” Mr. Silow-Carroll said.
The Jewish Week, which is published by the Jewish Week Media Group, a not-for-profit organization under New York law currently seeking tax-exempt status, has increasingly published investigative articles and stir-the-pot commentary.
Last year, it broke the news that Steven M. Cohen, a prominent sociologist of Jewry, had committed sexual misconduct against at least five women (Mr. Cohen did not contest the reporting and resigned from a position).
It also reported that Hillel International, the Jewish campus foundation, was investigating one of its biggest donors, the philanthropist Michael Steinhardt, for making sexually inappropriate remarks to an employee.
The article prompted an irate letter to the editor from a Jewish Week board member, along with further reporting by other outlets, including The Times, uncovering similar stories about Mr. Steinhardt. (Mr. Steinhardt has denied some allegations and said other remarks were intended humorously.)
Mr. Rosenblatt noted that in the battle to hold on to print readers and advertisers, The Jewish Week had an advantage that most newspapers did not.
“A number of our religiously observant readers don’t go online on Shabbat and want to hold and read a newspaper,” he said. “It’s part of how we time our publication date.”
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