2012 witnessed some of the most exciting developments in our recent history. Central to our growth and achievements has been our new International Headquarters in Jerusalem. Our first editorial base is also the home of our lecture facility complete with a rooftop deck designed to cater for student and mission groups from all over the world.
Operation Pillar of Defense saw our new premises transformed into a “war room,” for our media monitoring efforts. Being ready for action and working together in real time afforded us a tactical edge to swiftly counter the lies and misinformation before they could gain a foothold. In fact, our ability to identify, verify and publish a counter effort to the “fake injury” footage (see page 10) was achieved in less than 90 minutes. Our response was shared and elevated as the authoritative account of this fake footage story. So important was the rapid-response capability of our work that over a quarter of a million people saw our video bulletin within 48 hours. CNN and BBC had no option but to evaluate and reconsider the source of the Reuters footage in question.
This publication (PDF format) contains underlined hyperlinks; clicking them from the PDF will open related web pages. The links (and other resources) are listed below for your convenience. The PDF’s Table of Contents is linked to interior pages. Our 24-page Year in Review includes:
- Website Growth / Breadth of and Speed of Content
- MediaCentral Report
- Case Studies of Note / Landmark Legal Success
- Operation Pillar of Defense
- HR in the Media
- Around the Globe / Expanding Horizons
- Social Media and Multimedia
- “Inside Israel” Missions
- U.S. Executive Director’s Report
Download a FREE PDF of the 2012 Year in Review now and forward it to someone who cares for Israel. HonestReporting is on the frontlines of the fight against anti-Israel bias in the mainstream press and on the Internet.
Links from the PDF:
- Legal success media coverage: The Times of Israel, The Jerusalem Post, Commentary Magazine, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Jewish Chronicle, JN1 TV, Jewish News, Jewish Telegraph, and European Jewish Press (page 6)
- Trevor Asserson’s opinion pieces in The Jerusalem Post and The Jewish Chronicle (page 6)
- The Financial Times refused to correct an error (page 7)
- The Financial Times resulting correction [registration required] (page 7)
- Call for Badawi’s dismissal publicly repeated inside the UN (p.8)
- UN Undersecretary Valerie Amos responded (p.8)
- HonestReporting credited with exposing Badawi in The Jewish Chronicle, The Times of Israel, The Jerusalem Post, Israel Hayom, Ottawa Citizen, and The Blaze (p.8)
- Gideon Levy was the winner of the 2012 Dishonest Reporting Award (page 9)
- “Pallywood” video produced in 90 minutes (page 10)
- Joe Hyams on Israel’s IBA English TV News and Israel National News Radio (page 12)
- Simon Plosker on Revelation TV’s Middle East Report (page 12)
- Joe Hyams’ op-eds published in The Commentator and The Times of Israel (page 12)
- Simon Plosker’s Commentator articles about Syria’s regime and the BBC (page 12)
- Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld’s interview with Simon Plosker in Israel National News (page 12)
- HonestReporting partnered with Missing Peace (page 14)
- Israeli pre-natal care story was also picked up by The Jerusalem Post (page 14)
- ReporteHonesto took on Hugo Chavez-inspired anti-Semitism (page 14)
- Joe Hyams visited Hong Kong as reported in Jewish Times Asia (page 15)
- The Blankfeld Award for Quality Journalism (page 15)
- Aidan Fishman’s achievement covered by the Jewish Post & News and Jewish Tribune (page 15)
- HR video on YouTube: Searching for Israel’s Capital (page 16)
- HR’s most popular slideshow of the year, Why You Should Care About Iran, was picked up by the Pro-Democracy Movement of Iran (page 17)
- Tribute to the Israelis slain during the 1972 Olympics (page 17)
- A map of the E-1 area (page 17)
- A case study of a successful campaign against media bias (page 17)
- Gallery: Top Ten Media Fails of Operation Pillar of Defense (page 17)
- Mission and HR HQ publicity: The Times of Israel, Israel National News, Baltimore Jewish Life, and Jewish Press (p.18)
- November’s NSWJBD Mission featured on J-Wire (p.18)
- Unusually balanced article in The New York Times about Ulpana and Beit El (page 20)
- Pro-Israel Arab party which prompted an article from Reuters (page 21)
- Israel’s general elections: a major analysis by AP (page 21)
