The Jewish Chronicle

This article is about the London-based newspaper. Not to be confused with Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle.

The Jewish Chronicle
Front page, 17 January 1896, showing article by Theodor Herzl (the father of political Zionism)
TypeWeekly newspaper
FormatTabloid
EditorJake Wallis Simons[1]
Founded1841
LanguageEnglish
Circulation12,192 (as of 2023)[2]
Websitethejc.com

The Jewish Chronicle (The JC) is a London-based Jewish weekly newspaper. Founded in 1841, it is the oldest continuously published Jewish newspaper in the world.[3] Its editor (since December 2021) is Jake Wallis Simons.[1]

The newspaper is published every Friday (except when this is a Jewish holiday, when it appears earlier in the week) providing news, opinion pieces, social, cultural and sports reports, as well as editorials and a spectrum of readers' opinions on the letter page. The news section of its website is updated several times a day.

The average weekly circulation in 2018 was 20,141, of which 7,298 were free copies, down from 32,875 in 2008.[4][5] In February 2020, it announced plans to merge with the Jewish News but, in April 2020, entered voluntary liquidation and was acquired from the liquidators by a private consortium of political insiders, broadcasters and bankers. The paper's political stance under editor Jake Wallis Simons subsequently moved to the right.[6]

In 2024, The Guardian reported that some of the newspaper's prominent journalists quit the newspaper due to its purportedly unknown ownership arrangements and alleged publication of "fabricated" stories.[7][8][9]

  1. ^ a b "Jake Wallis Simons". The Spectator. December 2021. Archived from the original on 16 December 2021. Retrieved 16 December 2021.
  2. ^ "Jewish Chronicle - Print". Audit Bureau of Circulations. 20 February 2024. Retrieved 15 March 2024.
  3. ^ The Jewish Chronicle and Anglo-Jewry, 1841–1991 Archived 4 April 2023 at the Wayback Machine Cambridge University Press
  4. ^ "The Jewish Chronicle". ABC. Archived from the original on 4 April 2023. Retrieved 29 August 2019.
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  8. ^ Rusbridger, Alan. "Who really funds the Jewish Chronicle? Why it's troubling that we don't know…". www.prospectmagazine.co.uk. Retrieved 15 September 2024.
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