Ethan Bronner out as NYT Jerusalem chief

[Scurrilous]

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"Two years* after the New York Times public editor recommended his reassignment, Ethan Bronner is being replaced as Jerusalem bureau chief.

Today, the Times announced that Education editor Jodi Rudoren has been named Jerusalem bureau chief. Bronner will become the legal affairs reporter at the National desk.

"For those of us who worked with him as deputy foreign editor, it came as no surprise that Ethan Bronner could navigate the Scylla and Charybdis of foreign stories, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as smoothly as he has," foreign editor Joe Kahn and national editor Sam Sifton wrote in an internal memo, forwarded by a staffer. "Ethan's deep familiarity with Israel, his unerring sense of fairness, and his nose for what is really new in an exhaustively charted territory distinguished his work."

Bronner's 22-year-old son was* a member of the Israeli Defense Forces, a conflict of interest first raised by the website Electronic Intifada. Shortly thereafter, former public editor Clark Hoyt looked into the matter and found that, despite the 'unerring sense of fairness' mentioned above, Bronner's son's assignment put the bureau chief in a problematic position."

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/02/ethan-bronner-out-as-nyt-jerusalem-chief-114428.html

[Jefferson23]

1. His what? ....his unerring sense of fairness,"...sheesh. n/t

[oberliner]

2. An interview with NYT's Jodi Rudoren

“Generations of correspondents in Jerusalem have been subject to intense scrutiny and criticism from all sides,” Jodi Rudoren, who was just named Jerusalem bureau chief for the New York Times, told me over the phone today. “Social media adds a new dimension to that, and we’ll see how it goes.”

As I noted in my last post, Rudoren has come under fire from critics on the right and the left for tweets that they believe suggested an anti-Zionist slant.

In our conversation -- lightly edited for the sake of length -- Rudoren dismissed those suggestions, and said that while she plans to be more cautious about how she uses Twitter, she won't stop using the medium to address wide-ranging points of view.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/02/an-interview-with-nyts-jodi-rudoren-114603.html

[shira]

3. First day on the job and the mask is off. Before her very first article!

Idiot.

And yet another journalist sympathetic to the pro-BDS, down-with-Israel club. Just what the world needs WRT reporting in I/P.

[azurnoir]

4. well unless Bronners replacement also has a kid in IDF

or otherwise is somehow associated with some major ProIsrael group the Wurlitzer of demonizing will be revved to full speed as we see it being here already

I hear Jennifer Mizrahi is going to open maybe she'll be deemed unbiased enough