Julie Pace, executive editor of Associated Press, understandably is in full-on damage control mode.
AP’s Julie Pace speaking at the Jerusalem Press Club in June 2022 (Screenshot of Jerusalem Press Club video)
Reams of careful analysis have documented the news organization’s tendentious coverage of Israel’s war with Hamas. Survivors of Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre are suing the organization for hiring freelance photographers they say are affiliated with the terror organization and whom they accuse of having advance knowledge of the attacks. And two major customers, McClatchy and Gannett, recently dropped AP content as the media giant bleeds revenue.
So times are tough for the 42-year-old news executive. In her May 24 interview with The Marker’s Dafna Maor, the embattled Pace did her best to deflect criticism of the news organization and its documented failures.
But a comparison of her assertions versus AP coverage from recent days along with reporting from earlier in the war reveals that her best arguments are unfortunately detached from the news organization’s actual reporting.
(Read the rest of CAMERA’s May 28, 2024 Op-Ed at Times of Israel.)