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It is hard to imagine a world where the editor of a Jewish newspaper had never heard of Bernard Madoff, the former chairman of NASDAQ who pleaded guilty in March 2009 to running a $65 billion Ponzi scheme, which caused some Jewish charities across the US to shutter (Weiss, 2009). However, on the day when he turned himself into the federal authorities, in December 2008, the name ‘Madoff’ had no meaning for the editor of the Jewish Week, the newspaper with a readership of 70,000 that circulates in Madoff’s hometown, and to which his own attorney subscribes (I. Sorkin, personal communication, 11 March 2009). The day after Madoff’s arrest, the New York Times announced on its front page: ‘U.S. arrests top trader in vast fraud’ (Henriques and Kouwe, 2008). The Wall Street Journal declared on p. 1: ‘Top broker accused of fraud’ (Efrati, 2008).
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Mandell, H. (2015). Imagine What the Gentiles Must Think: Editors of the US Jewish Press Reflect on Covering the Bernard Madoff Scandal. In: Ogunyemi, O. (eds) Journalism, Audiences and Diaspora. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137457233_2
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