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Hong Kong hands media mogul Jimmy Lai 20-year prison sentence

The sentence ends Hong Kong's highest-profile national security trial and a legal sagathat has spanned nearly five years.

FILE PHOTO: File Photo: Media mogul Jimmy Lai Chee-ying, founder of Apple Daily arrives at West Kowloon Magistrates's Courts to face charges related to an illegal vigil assembly commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, in Hong Kong, China November 3, 2020.
 US journalist and television host Savannah Guthrie, accompanied by her siblings Annie and Camron, speaks in a video message, addressing anyone who might be holding her elderly mother, Nancy Guthrie, who went missing from her Arizona home several days ago,   released February 4, 2026.

'We received your message,' says Savannah Guthrie, offering to pay for her mother's return

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Keshet Neev: Making a career as a journalist in Israel

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Why understanding algorithms matters as much as reading the news


Editor's Notes: Israel’s media landscape has changed, and so has the country - comment

After October 7, Israelis moved from TV bulletins to social feeds, with Channel 14 gaining ground.

Many Israelis will base all of their information on these news-aggregating WhatsApp groups.

Kinneret: Search Operation for Missing Military Reservist During Recreational Leave

United Hatzalah representatives confirm that the specialized response unit is coordinating with security and rescue authorities

United Hatzalah search and rescue units are conducting an active search

Myron Rushetzky, the New York Post’s legendary city-desk supervisor, passes away

Generations of future well-known journalists, including the New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman, got their start running copy for Myron Rushetzky.

Myron Rushetzky wears a T-shirt with the New York Post's most famous headline at a party for the publication of the 2024 book, Paper of Wreckage, which was dedicated to him.

Iran threatens to execute 45 journalists, over 300 relatives in coordinated media suppresion effort

The Persian-language news network said the campaign is part of a coordinated effort by Iranian authorities to silence dissent and intimidate the press.

A noose is pictured as supporters of the National Council of Resistance of Iran gather to protest against the death penalty in their home country and for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to be declared a "terrorist organisation", in Berlin, Germany, November 14, 2024.

Israel slams int'l media for misrepresenting Gazan child's condition as starvation

The child's older brother is shown standing nearby, looking distressed but relatively healthy. Their mother also does not appear to be suffering from any symptoms of starvation.

A Palestinian youth holds a can of chickpeas from an aid package dropped from an airplane, amid a hunger crisis, in the central Gaza Strip, July 28, 2025; illustrative.

The pre-framing bias of the ‘locked narrative’ - opinion

Locking the narrative is useful in political communication, framing events or policies in a way that favors a particular viewpoint.

 Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram apps are seen on a smartphone in this illustration taken, July 13, 2021

Between the public and private: Focusing on the news and life in Israel - opinion

While we go about our daily private lives, public life seems to stay largely the same, with no resolution to the conflict.

 PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu sits next to his wife, Sara, at a dinner with US President Donald Trump at the White House last week. There’s no clearer picture today on the hostages than before the visit, says the writer.

Bill proposal to privatize Kan passes ministerial committee

According to the bill, Kan will no longer be allowed to broadcast "news and current events" on television or radio.

 View of the offices of Israel's public broadcaster KAN in Jerusalem. January 31, 2023.

Batsheva Shulman: An explorer of language in the sea of journalism

Behind the Bylines: In the sea of journalism where words and language matter so much, Batsheva Shulman is an explorer, helping track down exactly what to use to make our articles coherent.

 Batsheva Shulman

Conflict & Cuisine: The 'Post' taste tests summer drinks to go with your summer news - WATCH

 The Jerusalem Post’s Erica Schachne and Seth J. Frantzman bring you a special taste-testing extravaganza.