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‘It’s a totally different world’: David Horovitz on covering the Israel-Gaza war and journalism in the internet age

An Israeli military helicopter, seen from southern Israel, flies into the Gaza Strip, Friday, Feb. 9, 2024. Tsafrir Abayov/AP Photo.

David Horovitz, the founding editor of the Times of Israel, discusses what led him to co-found the fast-growing site in 2012, what it means to pursue a global audience, and the challenges of producing real-time journalism in the four months since Hamas’s terrorist attacks against Israel.

The episode is part of The Hub‘s Future of News series in which The Hub‘s editor-at-large, Sean Speer, will be in conversation with journalists and policy thinkers to explore the challenges facing the news media industry and the respective roles of business and government to establish sustainable models for producing and distributing news and information. The Future of News series is supported and funded by The Hub’s foundation donors and Meta.

You can listen to this episode of Hub Dialogues on AcastAmazonAppleGoogle, and Spotify. The episodes are generously supported by The Ira Gluskin And Maxine Granovsky Gluskin Charitable Foundation and The Linda Frum & Howard Sokolowski Charitable Foundation.

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