Jodi Rudoren (born November 30, 1970) is an American journalist and Editor-in-Chief of ''
The Forward
''The Forward'' ( yi, פֿאָרווערטס, Forverts), formerly known as ''The Jewish Daily Forward'', is an American news media organization for a Jewish American audience. Founded in 1897 as a Yiddish-language daily socialist newspaper, ' ...
''.
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Rudoren was a reporter and editor for ''
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...
'' for many years, and was the newspaper's Bureau chief in
Jerusalem
Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...
from 2012 through 2015. She joined the masthead as Associate Managing Editor for Audience Strategy in 2018. She had previously been the ''Times Chicago bureau chief, a ''Times'' correspondent on the 2004 presidential campaign, and served as deputy editor on the Metro desk, where she created the Sunday Metropolitan section. Rudoren was executive producer of the multimedia series ''One in 8 Million,'' which won an
Emmy Award
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. She was named Editor-in-Chief of ''The Forward'' in July 2019 and assumed the role in September 2019.
Rudoren began her career under the byline Jodi Wilgoren, her birth name. She married the former Gary Ruderman in 2004 and in 2006 the two merged their surnames.
Rudoren was raised in
Newton, Massachusetts
Newton is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. It is approximately west of downtown Boston. Newton resembles a patchwork of thirteen villages, without a city center. According to the 2020 U.S. Census, the population of Ne ...
and graduated cum laude from
Yale University
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in 1992 where she was Managing Editor of
Yale Daily News
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. She is a resident of
Montclair, New Jersey
Montclair () is a township in Essex County in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Situated on the cliffs of the Watchung Mountains, Montclair is a wealthy and diverse commuter town and suburb of New York City within the New York metropolitan area. As ...
.
She serves on the board for the Fuller Project, a nonprofit journalism organization that reports on the issues that most impact women in the US and abroad.
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1970 births
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20th-century American journalists
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Jewish American journalists
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American women journalists
People from Montclair, New Jersey
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