Journalism

Trump returns to White House correspondents' dinner after April attack halted gala

Secret Service Director Sean Curran told reporters Wednesday that an advance team was implementing a comprehensive security plan at the hotel.

|ByREUTERS
US President Donald Trump salutes during the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington, DC, US, April 25, 2026.
The scene after Israeli settlers attacked four Palestinian vehicles, including one belonging to CNN International, in the town of Halhul, south of Hebron, June 15, 2026

Israel charges Jerusalem man for threatening foreign journalists, damaging vehicles in West Bank

Prosecutors say the suspect blocked journalists’ vehicles north of Ramallah, threatened them with a club and a rock, tried to slash a tire, and damaged a windshield.

|BySARAH BEN-NUN
An Al Jazeera Arabic journalist broadcasts, while Syrians examine the aftermath of powerful Israeli airstrikes that targeted missile and weapons depots at a former Syrian military base, which residents said was also used by Russia, on December 16, 2024.

Journalists disappear in Syria, Damascus suppresses accounts of sectarian attacks, report finds

At least nine journalists have been killed in Syria in the last five years, most since the fall of the Assad regime, and others have been detained or disappeared.

|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi are seen in the Knesset plenum during a vote on the minister's communications reform, in Jerusalem, July 16, 2026

Editor's Notes: What this newspaper will ask of every party until Election Day

A full Knesset term, the first in nearly four decades, is a real institutional achievement in a region where governments rarely die of old age. But the Temple was magnificent on its last morning too.

|ByZVIKA KLEIN

New York Times hires Atlantic’s Yair Rosenberg to cover Jewish American life

It is the first time that the New York Times, published in the city with the world’s largest Jewish population, has a beat dedicated to Jews.

JUNE 30, 2026ByANDREW SILOW-CARROLL/JTA
Yair Rosenberg, who writes The Atlantic's "Deep Shtetl" newsletter, was named to a new religion beat at The New York Times focused on Jewish American life.

Press watchdog CPJ reviewing Gaza casualty database over 'journalists' tied to Hamas, PIJ

A Meir Amit Center study from December found that 60% of individuals who identified as journalists and were killed in Gaza were members of or affiliated with terrorist organizations.

JUNE 29, 2026ByMATHILDA HELLER
A journalist holds the blood-covered camera belonging to Palestinian photojournalist Mariam Dagga, a journalist who freelanced for AP since the start of the war and who was killed in an Israeli strike on Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, during her funeral on August 25, 2025.

Reporter for Saudi Arabia's Al Arabiya TV killed by car bomb in Yemen

Mohammed Aydah, a Yemeni who reported for Saudi channel Al Arabiya, was killed by a car bomb in Mukalla, in eastern Yemen.

JUNE 25, 2026ByREUTERS
Car of Mohammed Aydah, a Yemeni journalist at the Saudi-owned television network al-Arabiya, is pictured at the yard of a police station after an explosive device planted in the car detonated and killed him, in Mukalla, Yemen June 25, 2026. Picture taken with a mobile phone.

Journalists forced into exile rise sharply worldwide, Afghanistan accounts for almost half

Reporters Without Borders, known by its French acronym RSF, said it supported 1,468 journalists between 2021 and 2025 who fled threats, imprisonment, or threats to their lives.

JUNE 24, 2026ByARSHAD MEHMOOD/THE MEDIA LINE
A 2011 display by Reporters Without Borders showing reporters have been held hostage for over 500 days

Spanish Jewish groups defend journalist Pilar Rahola amid hate speech complaint

Jewish organizations in Spain have rallied behind journalist Pilar Rahola after prosecutors opened preliminary proceedings over a complaint tied to her pro-Israel views.

JUNE 23, 2026ByMATHILDA HELLER
Pilar Rahola attends an autograph session for her latest book during Sant Jordi on April 23, 2017.

UK weighs forcing social media firms to boost trusted news

The UK is weighing new rules that would require Meta, TikTok and YouTube to prioritize trusted news content in feeds and search results.

JUNE 23, 2026ByREUTERS
Social media and the algorithm move faster than facts and claims can be verified.

Erdogan’s grip on Turkey deepens as NATO gathers in Ankara - opinion

Erdogan’s NATO spotlight comes as opposition figures face prosecution, economic turmoil grows, and democracy erodes in Turkey.

JUNE 22, 2026ByNEVILLE TELLER
TURKISH PRESIDENT Recep Tayyip Erdogan attends the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro. Turkey’s irredentist policies, from its actions in Cyprus to its growing involvement in Syria, highlight a policy of territorial expansion and ethnic dominance, the writer maintains.

After 15-year sentence for Israeli interview, Lebanese journalist says courts protect Hezbollah

Maria Maalouf was sentenced for speaking to KAN News in 2021, where she complained, "Hassan Nasrallah and Iran’s party in Lebanon have taken the state hostage and returned it to the stone age."

JUNE 16, 2026ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
Journalist Maria Maalouf.

'CBS News is on fire': Scott Pelley accuses Bari Weiss of editorial interference after being ousted

According to Pelley, Bilton's arrival raised concerns among staff because he lacked prior experience managing a television news operation.

JUNE 9, 2026ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Scott Pelley attends CBS' Fall Schedule Celebration at Paramount Studios on May 02, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.

How Israel’s and America’s enemies weaponize the New York Times’ prestige - opinion

Enemy governments do not merely quote the Times; they convert its institutional authority and standing into an American credential for claims against the United States and its allies.

JUNE 3, 2026ByAVIRAM BELLAISHE
The New York Times building in Manhattan, New York City, pictured September 16, 2025; illustrative.