The New York Times Is Awarded German Prize for ‘International Understanding’
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The New York Times Is Awarded German Prize for ‘International Understanding’
3, 2017
HAMBURG, Germany — The New York Times was awarded a major German prize on Sunday for its efforts to remain "a beacon of reason
and enlightenment in an era of ‘alternative facts’ and allegations of ‘fake news,’" the jury said.
I consider that my greatest accomplishment as publisher of The New York Times." Ms. Dönhoff, who died in 2002, participated in the German resistance against Hitler, whose followers sometimes called her
"the red countess." Fleeing to western Germany as the Soviets took over her ancestral home, she joined the fledging Die Zeit in 1946 as political editor, and rose to be editor and then publisher.
Mr. Steinmeier, who has been engaged in pressing German political parties to negotiate a new coalition agreement to avoid new elections, told the story of Walter Jacob,
who at age 8 watched Nazi rioters destroy his father’s synagogue in his hometown, Augsburg, during Kristallnacht, the night of broken glass, on Nov. 10, 1938.
" Mr. Sulzberger said, "more than when I took over 25 years ago.
that Today, against all odds and expectations, The New York Times employs nearly 1,500 journalists,
3, 2017
HAMBURG, Germany — The New York Times was awarded a major German prize on Sunday for its efforts to remain "a beacon of reason
and enlightenment in an era of ‘alternative facts’ and allegations of ‘fake news,’" the jury said.
I consider that my greatest accomplishment as publisher of The New York Times." Ms. Dönhoff, who died in 2002, participated in the German resistance against Hitler, whose followers sometimes called her
"the red countess." Fleeing to western Germany as the Soviets took over her ancestral home, she joined the fledging Die Zeit in 1946 as political editor, and rose to be editor and then publisher.
Mr. Steinmeier, who has been engaged in pressing German political parties to negotiate a new coalition agreement to avoid new elections, told the story of Walter Jacob,
who at age 8 watched Nazi rioters destroy his father’s synagogue in his hometown, Augsburg, during Kristallnacht, the night of broken glass, on Nov. 10, 1938.
" Mr. Sulzberger said, "more than when I took over 25 years ago.
that Today, against all odds and expectations, The New York Times employs nearly 1,500 journalists,