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January 2025 | Released Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning, arguing that Jewish texts and history have been used to justify mass slaughter and starvation in Gaza. |
December 2023 | Bennet wrote a 16,000-word essay in The Economist criticizing the Times' shift away from journalistic objectivity and explaining the circumstances of his resignation. |
November 2023 | Became the editor-in-chief of The Emancipator. |
September 2022 | Joined the Los Angeles Times as an essayist. |
July 2022 | Became the first American to write The Economist's Lexington column, a prestigious position named after the site of the first battle of the American Revolution. |
February 15 2022 | A jury rejected Sarah Palin's libel lawsuit against The New York Times. |
February 8 2022 | Bennet testified in the Sarah Palin defamation lawsuit and took full responsibility for the published errors. |
January 26 2021 | James Bennet was hired by The Economist as a 'visiting senior editor' for a one-year term. |
June 7 2020 | The New York Times announced Bennet's resignation. |
June 4 2020 | The New York Times published a story stating that Cotton's op-ed did not meet their standards. |
June 3 2020 | The New York Times published a controversial op-ed by Senator Tom Cotton calling for federal troops to be deployed during nationwide protests following George Floyd's murder. |
January 2020 | Contributed an essay titled 'She Can't Breathe' to the anti-rape anthology 'Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World'. |
May 2019 | Received the Arts Reporting award from the Deadline Club (New York City chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists) for his Time cover story on Black Panther titled 'A Hero Rises'. |
March 2018 | Joined Rolling Stone as a senior writer, profiling political figures and writing columns. |
February 19 2018 | Wrote the cover story for Time magazine about Black Panther, analyzing the film's cultural significance. |
June 2017 | Became a freelance reporter and opinion writer after layoffs at MTV News. |
June 2017 | The editorial page published a controversial piece linking political incitement to the Congressional baseball shooting and the 2011 Gabby Giffords shooting, which led to a defamation lawsuit by Sarah Palin. |
2016 | Became a senior national correspondent for MTV News, co-hosting the MTV-BET townhall 'What Now' and hosting the YouTube series The Racket. |
May 2 2016 | Bennet officially began his role as Editorial Page editor and added op-ed columnist Bret Stephens to the Times editorial page. |
March 2016 | The New York Times announced James Bennet's appointment as Editorial Page editor, effective May 2, 2016. |
2015 | Named to The Root 100 list of leading black influencers for his work at The New Republic, noted for reporting on cultural topics like campus rape and Al Sharpton. |
January 2015 | Joined The New Republic as a senior editor covering race, politics, and gender, launching the magazine's first podcast, Intersection. |
2013 | Named to The Root 100 list of leading black influencers for his work on Melissa Harris-Perry. |
2012 | Published The Crisis of Zionism, critiquing Zionist policies under Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud government as being at odds with liberal ideals. |
2011 | Named to The Root 100 list of leading black influencers for his work on The Rachel Maddow Show. |
2010 | Won his third Sports Emmy Award while working as a television segment producer for NFL Films. |
2010 | Joined MSNBC as a producer for The Rachel Maddow Show and Melissa Harris-Perry. |
2010 | Part of the team that won the Outstanding Edited Sports Series/Anthology Sports Emmy for Hard Knocks: Training Camp With The Cincinnati Bengals. |
2010 | Published The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris, a reflective work examining how he got the Iraq War wrong and analyzing American foreign policy failures. |
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