Media Coverage of Anti-Semitism: From the Backburner to the Front Page
During World War II, American media was slow to publish details of the full extent of the Holocaust. What changed decades later, when a gunman entered a Pittsburgh synagogue on Shabbat morning, media coverage was widespread and empathetic.
Join JANE EISNER, journalist, educator, and non-profit leader, as she discusses all this and more. Eisner was the first women editor-in-chief of The Forward and currently is the director of Academic Affairs at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University.
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