On Thursday, January 30, 2014 Thomas Friedman, New York Times columnist and 3-time Pulitzer Prize winner, chatted with Uri Dromi, Director of the Jerusalem Press Club (JPC) on “There Goes the Neighborhood: How the Arab Awakening, Climate and Technology changed the Environment of Israel”.
200 JPC members enjoyed a lively discussion, where Friedman reminisced on his early days as a young journalist, his meeting with a Saudi prince which generated the Arab Peace Initiative, and his recent exclusive story on the Kerry peace proposal.
As originally published in the English edition of Haaretz:
With digital technology rapidly changing the face of journalism, it’s pure entertainment to listen to Thomas L. Friedman, the inveterate New York Times columnist, describe filing his stories from war-rattled Lebanon in the 1980s. He had to bang out several versions of his stories on a typewriter and then feed the final version to the city’s sole telex machine operator, three painstaking paragraphs at a time. Watch Full Movie Online Streaming Online and Download
About Thomas Friedman:
Thomas L. Friedman (https://www.thomaslfriedman.com) won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for commentary, his third Pulitzer for The New York Times. He became the paper’s foreign-affairs Op-Ed columnist in 1995. Previously, he served as chief economic correspondent in the Washington bureau and before that he was the chief White House correspondent. In 2005, Mr. Friedman was elected as a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board.
Mr. Friedman joined The Times in 1981 and was appointed Beirut bureau chief in 1982. In 1984 Mr. Friedman was transferred from Beirut to Jerusalem, where he served as Israel bureau chief until 1988. Mr. Friedman was awarded the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting (from Lebanon) and the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting (from Israel).
