Gersh Kuntzman

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Gersh Kuntzman
Gersh Kuntzman near Guadalajara, Mexico in 2015.
Occupation(s)Journalist and writer
Websitehttp://gershkuntzman.homestead.com

Gersh Kuntzman is an American journalist.

Career

Journalism

Kuntzman previously worked for the New York Post, writing the column "MetroGnome," which ran during 1995–2004.[1] He had a weekly column for Newsweek online that ran during 2001–2005.[2]

In 2005, Kuntzman became editor of

Kings County, New York. During his tenure, he won awards for Editor of the Year and Columnist of the Year from the Suburban Newspapers of America.[3] His editorial writing also won awards from the Independent Free Papers of America. That organization also gave The Brooklyn Paper its Vic Jose Award in 2009.[4]

In 2012, Kuntzman became deputy managing editor for news at the New York Daily News,[2] where he later became a columnist until 2016.

In 2016, Kuntzman became the center of widespread attention when he wrote an article titled "Firing an

PTSD".[5] Kuntzman faced widespread ridicule for the article, particularly the claim that he suffered from PTSD, with some critics saying such a claim diminished the severity of PTSD suffered by veterans.[6] Kuntzman later wrote another article further criticizing gun owners.[7]

In April 2016, Kuntzman criticized U.S. government's drone assassination program and implied that the Obama administration may be guilty of war crimes.[8] He also wanted President Obama to apologize for the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.[8]

Following the

Islamic State and Jabhat al-Nusra ... Are they really the same to you?"[10]

In 2017, he began work as breaking news editor of

Streetsblog NYC as its editor-in-chief later that year in July.[12]

Activism

Kuntzman was featured in a December 2022 New York Times article that focused on citizens "cleaning up" license plates which had been intentionally damaged or obscured for the purpose of avoiding tolls and speed cameras.[13] A subsequent article in The New Yorker featured the same work.[14]

Kuntzman described himself as a supporter of the Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.[15]

Footnotes

  1. ^ "BIO OF GERSH KUNTZMAN" (PDF). gershkuntzman.blogspot.com. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
  2. ^ a b "Gersh Kuntzman Resume" (PDF). homestead.com. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
  3. ^ "The Brooklyn Paper is 'Newspaper of the Year'". 11 August 2007. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  4. ^ "We win — again! More awards for your Brooklyn Paper!". Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  5. ^ Gersh Kuntzman. "Firing an AR-15 is horrifying, menacing, and very very loud". NY Daily News. Retrieved November 15, 2016.
  6. ^ Douglas Ernst. "Gersh Kuntzman, N.Y. Daily News writer: Firing AR-15 'gave me a temporary form of PTSD'". The Washington Times. Retrieved November 15, 2016.
  7. ^ Gersh Kuntzman. "To gun lovers, you can't even have an opinion on assault rifles - unless it's theirs. Here's the proof". NY Daily News. Retrieved November 15, 2016.
  8. ^ a b "President Obama should apologize when he visits atomic bomb site in Hiroshima — and while he's at it, he should swear off drone strikes". NY Daily News. April 14, 2016.
  9. ^ Gersh, Kuntzman. "Assassination of Russian Ambassador Andrei Karlov was not terrorism, but retribution for Vladimir Putin's war crimes". New York Daily News. Retrieved 20 December 2016.
  10. ^ "Kremlin demands US paper apologize for 'justifying' assassination". The Hill. December 21, 2016.
  11. ^ Kelly, Keith J. (27 February 2018). "Newsweek fires two more editors as turmoil escalates". nypost.com. NYP Holdings, Inc. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
  12. ^ "Gersh Kuntzman - Editor-in-Chief at OpenPlans". THE ORG. Retrieved 2023-01-19.
  13. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved 2023-01-31.
  14. ^ "At Large with New York's One-Man Crime Spree". The New Yorker. 2023-01-16. Retrieved 2023-01-19.
  15. ^ "I voted for Hillary Clinton — and even I don't want her to be president at this point". NY Daily News. November 23, 2016.

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