Jonathan S. Tobin
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Jonathan S. Tobinis an American journalist. He is editor in chief of theJewish News Syndicate(JNS).
Biography[edit]
Jonathan S. Tobin was born in New York City and educated in local schools. He studied history atColumbia University.
Journalism career[edit]
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Tobin is a frequent commentator on domestic politics,Israel,and Jewish affairs. His column, "View from America",[1]appeared for many years inThe Jerusalem Post.His work has also appeared inIsrael Hayom,theChristian Science Monitor,The Forward,Britain'sJewish Chronicle,theNew York Sun,and many other publications. Tobin lectures widely across the United States on college campuses, and to Jewish organizations and synagogues. He tours North America, debating political and Jewish issues[2]withJ.J. GoldbergofThe Forward,and has appeared onCNN,BBC Radio,Fox News,Newsmax,i24News,and local network affiliates to discuss politics, foreign policy, and Jewish issues.
From 2009 to 2011, he was executive editor ofCommentary,aneo-conservativemonthly magazine. From 2011 to 2017, he was senior online editor and chief political blogger atCommentary,and the author[3]of feature articles, reviews, and blog posts[4]there. Tobin was executive editor ofThe Jewish ExponentinPhiladelphiafrom 1998 through 2008. Prior to that, he was executive editor of theConnecticut 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 atThe Philadelphia Inquirerreports aggressively onKnight RidderCorp. "He told an interviewer forThe New York Timesthat "My job as editor is to talk about things people are not willing to talk about".[5]In the same article, theTimeswrote that, "In his three-year tenure atThe 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[edit]
Tobin was profiled in thePhiladelphia Business Journalon July 26, 2002, and inPress,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 theSociety of Professional Journalists.[7]
References[edit]
- ^A View From America, The Jerusalem Post[permanent dead link]
- ^"Goldberg-Tobin Debate".Kolot Management.Retrieved2017-12-26.
- ^"Jonathan S. Tobin, Author at Commentary Magazine".Commentary Magazine.Retrieved2017-12-26.
- ^"You searched for Jonathan S. Tobin – Commentary Magazine".Commentary Magazine.Retrieved2017-12-26.
- ^"An Editorial Provokes A Debate on Intermarriage; Jewish Weekly Touches a Nerve in Connecticut", Jonathan Rabinowitz, July 13, 1995,The New York Times,[1]
- ^Faith in the press,by Adam Stone, July 26, 2002,Philadelphia Business Journal
- ^dmichaels (2013-07-02)."Exponent Wins City, State, National Awards – Jewish Exponent".Jewish Exponent.Retrieved2017-12-26.