Type | Weekly newspaper |
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Format | Tabloid |
Editor | Jake Wallis Simons[1] |
Founded | 1841 |
Language | English |
Circulation | 12,192 (as of 2023)[2] |
Website | thejc |
The Jewish Chronicle (The JC) is a London-based Jewish weekly newspaper. Founded in 1841, it is the oldest continuously published Jewish newspaper in the world.[3] Its editor (since December 2021[update]) is Jake Wallis Simons.[1]
The newspaper is published every Friday (except when this is a Jewish holiday, when it appears earlier in the week) providing news, opinion pieces, social, cultural and sports reports, as well as editorials and a spectrum of readers' opinions on the letter page. The news section of its website is updated several times a day.
The average weekly circulation in 2018 was 20,141, of which 7,298 were free copies, down from 32,875 in 2008.[4][5] In February 2020, it announced plans to merge with the Jewish News but, in April 2020, entered voluntary liquidation and was acquired from the liquidators by a private consortium of political insiders, broadcasters and bankers. In 2020, a consortium led by Sir Robbie Gibb, a former government spin doctor and current BBC director, rescued the JC from threatened liquidation. However, the identity of the other backers in the consortium is unknown, which is highly unusual for a significant UK newspaper. Some sources suggest that the funding may have come from a right-wing American billionaire, Paul E. Singer, who is known for supporting pro-Israel causes. There are also concerns about the potential conflict of interest for Gibb, who sits on the BBC's editorial standards committee while his JC editor has been critical of the BBC's coverage of the Israel-Gaza conflict.[6]
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