Neil Lewis was a Goldsmith Fellow at the Shorenstein Center. He was a correspondent with The New York Times from 1985 until his retirement in 2009. He has covered the Justice Department, the State Department and a variety of other assignments, including presidential campaigns, Supreme Court nomination battles and Guantanamo. Before joining The Times, he worked for Reuters news agency in Washington, London and Johannesburg. He was Reuters’ White House correspondent and served as senior correspondent in South Africa in the early 1980’s. His work has appeared in several magazines including The New Republic, Washington Monthly, Rolling Stone and The New York Times Book Review. Born and educated in New York City, Mr. Lewis holds degrees from Union College and Yale Law School. He is co-author of the book, Betrayal: The Story of Aldrich Ames, an American Spy. Mr. Lewis was most recently a general assignment and investigative correspondent in the Washington bureau of The Times. Mr. Lewis, who was vice chair of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, teaches media law at Duke Law School. His research focused on the American Jewish community and Israel, exploring lobbies, loyalties and their influence on the press.
Israel in The New York Times Over the Decades: A Changed Narrative and Its Impact on Jewish Readers
February 1, 2012
Neil Lewis Shorenstein Center Fellow, Spring 2011 Formerly, The New York Times Read the full paper (PDF). Excerpt: A survey of nearly 3,000 articles in The Times about Israel over the decades from the 1960’s to recent years provides a long-range view that shows that it is a narrative with, in the broadest sense, two
