Watch a recording of this informative presentation on Middle East news coverage and how to avoid the potential for biases to get incorporated into headlines and how you explain the complicated Middle East conflict to your audiences.
HonestReporting analyzes stories, articles, opinion pieces and images that appear in the media’s coverage of Israel, exposing and responding to inaccuracies or bias. HonestReporting also provides educational resources that enable journalists to learn more about Middle East issues from an Israeli perspective.
You can watch the webinar in the player below.
About the Speaker
Gil Hoffman is the Executive Director and Executive Editor of HonestReporting, which fights for Israel in the international mainstream and social media; a lecturer on political strategy at Israel’s College of Management and former Chief Political Correspondent and analyst for The Jerusalem Post for 24 years.
Well-connected to Israeli and Palestinian leaders, he has interviewed every major figure across the Israeli political spectrum, has been interviewed by top media on six continents and is a regular analyst on CNN, Al-Jazeera and other news outlets.
He was raised in Chicago, graduated magna cum laude from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and wrote for the Miami Herald and Arizona Republic before moving to Israel.
A reserve soldier in the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, he has lectured in every major English-speaking country in the world, more than half the Canadian provinces and recently made history in Hawaii by becoming the first speaker to have lectured about Israel in all 50 US states. He lives with his family in Jerusalem.
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