Jewish News
Jewish News is a free weekly tabloid that serves the Jewish communities of Greater London, including Middlesex, Hertfordshire and Essex. It was founded in 1997 and is edited by Richard Ferrer, with Justin Cohen as news editor and co-publisher. The newspaper won the Press Gazette free newspaper of the year prize in 2002 and is published every Thursday. It is distributed free, with about 24,500 copies a week (2016 ABC figures) at more than 230 locations across London, and had its 1,100th edition in 2019. It has described itself as the largest Jewish newspaper in the UK by distribution.
Ownership and status changes: In February 2020, Jewish News announced plans to merge with The Jewish Chronicle. In April 2020, it said it would enter voluntary liquidation due to the COVID-19 crisis, but after a bid for The Jewish Chronicle, it continued as an independent publication. In November 2020, the newspaper was donated to the Independent Jewish Community News Foundation, which later changed its name to The Jacob Foundation. The foundation said the move would ensure the paper’s ongoing editorial independence and high-quality news for the British Jewish community, with funding from about a dozen donors; the transfer of ownership and the associated website was completed in October 2020.
Notable events: In 2018, Jewish News lost a libel case brought by Baroness Warsi; the paper apologised for an article and paid £20,000 in damages and costs. In 2015, Jewish News helped organise the UK–Israel Shared Strategic Challenges Conference in Parliament, with speakers including Silvan Shalom, Isaac Herzog, Yair Lapid, Tobias Ellwood and Charles Farr.
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