Jonathan S. Tobin

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Jonathan S. Tobin is an American journalist. He is editor in chief of JNS.org, the Jewish News Syndicate.

Biography

Jonathan S. Tobin was born in New York City and educated in local schools. He studied history at Columbia University.

Journalism career

Tobin is a frequent commentator on domestic politics,

i24News
, and local network affiliates to discuss politics, foreign policy, and Jewish issues.

From 2009 to 2011, he was executive editor of

Connecticut Jewish Ledger.

In 2003, Tobin told an interviewer that Jewish journalism has improved in quality over the last 20 years, but that there are constraints because many American Jewish newspapers are owned by Jewish federations, rather than being independent corporations. This problem, he said, is not different from the problems faced by other newspapers: "Nobody at The Philadelphia Inquirer reports aggressively on Knight Ridder Corp." He told an interviewer for The New York Times that "My job as editor is to talk about things people are not willing to talk about".[5] In the same article, the Times wrote that, "In his three-year tenure at The Ledger, an independently owned newspaper, Mr. Tobin, a Long Island native, has turned the once-stodgy weekly into a plucky newspaper, with stories on abuses at a local Jewish nursing home and domestic violence among Jews."

Awards and recognition

Tobin was profiled in the Philadelphia Business Journal on July 26, 2002, and in Press, the magazine of the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association, in its November 2002 issue.[6]

He was named top editorial columnist and best arts critic in Philadelphia for the year 2005 by the Society of Professional Journalists.[7]

References

  1. ^ A View From America, The Jerusalem Post[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ "Goldberg-Tobin Debate". Kolot Management. Retrieved 2017-12-26.
  3. ^ "Jonathan S. Tobin, Author at Commentary Magazine". Commentary Magazine. Retrieved 2017-12-26.
  4. ^ "You searched for Jonathan S. Tobin – Commentary Magazine". Commentary Magazine. Retrieved 2017-12-26.
  5. ^ "An Editorial Provokes A Debate on Intermarriage; Jewish Weekly Touches a Nerve in Connecticut", Jonathan Rabinowitz, July 13, 1995, The New York Times, [1]
  6. ^ Faith in the press, by Adam Stone, July 26, 2002, Philadelphia Business Journal
  7. ^ dmichaels (2013-07-02). "Exponent Wins City, State, National Awards – Jewish Exponent". Jewish Exponent. Retrieved 2017-12-26.

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