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Jake Bernstein is an American investigative journalist and author. He previously worked with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. During a 25-year career, he has reported on the civil war in Central America, industrial pollution in Texas, political corruption in Miami, system-crashing greed on Wall Street, and the secret ...
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I report on what might pretentiously be described as the intersection of power and privilege in New York City, but I don’t have a conventional beat where there’s one person or subject I’m covering all the time. Sometimes, I’m digging through databases for documents about prominent people in the worlds of finance, entertainment, art, or philanthropy...
I am a native New Yorker and graduate of Vassar College who has been a features writer for The Times since 2013. Before that, I did stints at New York Magazine, The Daily Beast and Women’s Wear Daily, where I wrote a column about the media industry. In 2016, I directed the documentary “Everything Is Copy,” which is on HBO and was nominated for two ...
I do a job with a rigorous set of ethical guidelines. Underlying them are principles about treating people fairly and being open minded about what I don’t know. I do not take payment or gifts from profile subjects or their representatives. I do not endorse political candidates. If I am seated at a show I’m not writing about, the ticket has been pai...
Mar 31, 2016 · Jacob Bernstein named his documentary about his mother after an Ephron family saying — "everything is copy," meaning that anything and everything that happens to you is fair game to write about.
Mar 20, 2016 · In an interview with RogerEbert.com, the 37-year-old New York Times staff writer and novice filmmaker revealed his reasons for doing a documentary about his mom—a companion piece to his 2013 tribute that ran in the Times’ Sunday magazine —and how he got his reluctant father to open up on camera.
Jun 19, 2024 · Jacob Bernstein is fascinated by power, privilege and the people who wield both. As a reporter for the Styles desk at The New York Times, Mr. Bernstein’s beat involves writing about influential...
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Mar 21, 2016 · After Nora Ephron died in 2012, her son Jacob Bernstein knew he wanted to tell the story she never told. That mission became his first documentary feature, “Everything Is Copy,” which debuted...
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Apr 2, 2016 · If anyone is perfectly equipped to make a moving and balanced documentary about trailblazing author-journalist-screenwriter-director Nora Ephron, it’s her son, Jacob Bernstein.
