Episode Details

The Jerusalem Post is remembered as a polarizing outlet with a broken refresh button, yet it launched JPost.com in December 1996 — at the front of the first wave of news going online. This episode traces the paper from its 1925 wire-service roots through the 1948 car bombing that destroyed its offices, the 1989 Hollinger pivot rightward, and the revolving door of editors that keeps shifting its political lean. Then it turns to the competition: the Times of Israel, founded in 2012 by former Post editor David Horovitz, which grew from two million readers in 2014 to roughly eight million unique monthly users by 2025, went multilingual across Hebrew, Arabic, French and Persian, and pulled diaspora papers from Pittsburgh to Sydney onto a single platform. Along the way: the 1917 founding of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, and why the same impulse — reaching a global Jewish readership — keeps producing new institutions. Episode #709969 — open it directly at myweirdprompts.com/709969