Women’s Wear Daily reports: On Wednesday, The New York Times informed the chief of its Jerusalem bureau, a 14-year veteran of the paper, that she can’t be trusted with her own Facebook account.
The paper did this by way of a blog post from public editor Margaret Sullivan taking to task bureau chief Jodi Rudoren for a series of controversial status updates on her public Facebook profile. In the blog post, foreign editor Joseph Kahn tells Sullivan he assigned Rudoren an editor to monitor her output on social media.
The decision came a week after Rudoren took to her public Facebook profile, as she does often, to answer a reader’s question about the recent conflict in Gaza. In her reporting, Rudoren said she has found Palestinians don’t seem as traumatized as Israelis by the loss of life or bombing. “They seem a bit ho-hum,” she wrote.