New Voices is the only[1] American national magazine written for and by Jewish college students. Published since 1991 by the independent, non-profit, student-run Jewish Student Press Service, New Voices is read by over 20,000 students across the United States and abroad.
| Executive Director, JSPS/Editor in Chief, New Voices | Julia Hegele (June 2024 – present) |
|---|---|
| Categories | Student magazine; Jewish themes |
| Frequency | Online-only |
| Founded | 1991 |
| Company | Jewish Student Press Service |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Website | http://www.newvoices.org |
The magazine is produced by one recent college graduate in New York City and dozens of student writers from campuses across the country on a shoestring annual budget.
History
editThe Jewish Student Press Service was established in 1971 to provide quality, student-written articles to a then-thriving national network of local Jewish campus publications across the United States.[2] Many of today's most accomplished Jewish journalists got their start at the Jewish Student Press Service. Current and former writers and editors of The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New York Jewish Week, The New Jersey Jewish News, Dissent, The Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Lilith, and Sh'ma are all past contributors to the Jewish Student Press Service.[3]
In 1991, faced with a decline in the number of individual campus publications, the Jewish Student Press Service changed its focus and began publishing its own magazine, called New Voices, which now operates online as a fully digital magazine.[4] As an independent publication and educational organization, each Editor is recently-graduated and hired for an average two-year contract.[5] New Voices Magazine is supported by the Jewish Student Press Service Board of Directors, an intergenerational board composed largely of previous Press Service editors and writers.[6]
Sections
edit- Arts &Culture
- Campus & Community
- Fiction
- Investigative Series
- Opinion
- Poetry
- Fresh Torah[7]
News coverage
editIn a 2007 article in The Nation, Eyal Press writes about New Voice's budget crisis:
“In the end, Solelim announced a new arrangement: New Voices was given a $10,000 grant instead of the $30,000 it had expected, and was required to offer $9,000 in free advertising to two hard-line pro-Israel groups, Stand With Us and the David Project. This scuttled New Voices's capacity-building plans, and one staffer had to be let go.”[8]
External links
edit- New Voices' official website
- Records of the Jewish Student Press Service at the American Jewish Historical Society, New York, NY and Boston, MA
References
edit- ^ Wilensky, David A. M. (August 15, 2017). "Too many mega-donors, not enough campus activism". J. Retrieved April 5, 2023.
- ^ "Wujs to Launch World-wide Student Press Service; Offers to Stand-in for 33 Jews". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Retrieved April 6, 2023.
- ^ "About Us". New Voices. Retrieved April 6, 2023.
- ^ "What Ever Happened to Those Jewish Student Radicals?". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Retrieved April 6, 2023.
- ^ Wilensky, David A. M. (December 11, 2015). "Are the kids all right? New Voices gives a journalist hope". J. Retrieved April 6, 2023.
- ^ "Editor-in-Chief | NYU Journalism Career Services". careerservices.nyujournalism.org. Retrieved April 7, 2023.
- ^ "Browse by Section". New Voices. Retrieved April 7, 2023.
- ^ Press, Eyal (April 30, 2007). "Silencing 'New Voices'". The Nation.
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