Hadas Gold | |
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הדס גולד | |
.jpg) Gold atWeb Summit 2017 | |
| Born | February 25, 1988 (1988-02-25) (age 37) Tel Aviv, Israel |
| Education | BA in journalism andMA inmedia studies andpublic affairs |
| Alma mater | George Washington University |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Spouse | Christopher Alex Hooton |
Hadas Gold (Hebrew:הדס גולד; born February 25, 1988) is a media and business reporter forCNN andCNN International.[1]
Gold was born inTel Aviv, Israel,[2] the daughter of Daphna and Yoram Gold.[3] Her father is anIsraeli Defense Forces veteran and project manager for a drug company; her mother is a Hebrew teacher.[3][4] Her family isJewish.[5][6] She moved toScottsdale, Arizona when she was three[7][8] and graduated in 2006 fromDesert Mountain High School.[9] She graduated with a B.A. in journalism and a M.A. in media and public affairs fromGeorge Washington University.[2] During school, she worked as a news and feature editor atThe GW Hatchet where she received awards from the Society for Professional Journalists and the Associated College Press.[2] In 2011, she was awarded a prestigious fellowship from thePulitzer Center.[10]
Gold interned at60 Minutes,Politifact, and withCox Newspapers before working as a freelance producer with Colombian TV networkNTN 24 and then atPolitico as a media reporter[2] where she led the "On The Media" blog[5] and covered the 2016 presidential campaign.[11] She left Politico after five years to work forCNN as their politics, media and global business reporter.[2] In 2017, Gold was named one of the "most influential media reporters" byMediaite.[2] She currently sits on the National Council for theGeorge Washington UniversitySchool of Media and Public Affairs.[citation needed]
In October 2016, Gold was targeted withantisemitic threats, tweets and emails, including threats against her life. Other prominent Jewish journalists also received similar threats at the time, includingJake Tapper ofCNN;Jeffrey Goldberg; editor-in-chief ofThe Atlantic, Jonathan Weisman of theNew York Times; andBen Shapiro ofThe Daily Wire.[5][12][13] Gold's employer at the time Politico, reported the threats to police. Gold states that: "I don’t want to say it’s something you just have to deal with, but the internet is both wonderful and not wonderful. You have to kind of take the good with the bad and react appropriately when it does seem serious."[9]
On May 27, 2018, Gold retweeted anArizona Republic article[14] of migrant children being held at an ICE detention facility, including photos of them in cages. The article was first tweeted by numerous other journalists and public figures following PresidentDonald Trump's new policy of taking children away from parents who are caught unlawfully crossing the Mexican border into the United States includingNew York Times Magazine editor-in-chiefJake Silverstein,Shaun King, Obama speechwriterJon Favreau, activistLinda Sarsour, and former Los Angeles mayorAntonio Villaraigosa. Gold subsequently deleted her tweet writing "Deleted previous tweet because gave impression of recent photos (they’re from 2014)" after it emerged that the article was from 2014 during the administration of PresidentBarack Obama.[15][16][17]
In 2017, she married economist Christopher Alex Hooton in Scottsdale.[3][18]
Surrounded by family and friends from more than a dozen countries, Chris and Hadas exchanged vows they wrote themselves during a ceremony that blended Hadas and Chris' Jewish, Irish, and Slovakian heritages