Amir Mizroch
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Amir Mizroch is an Israeli journalist
Journalist
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...

 currently the editor of the English Newsletter Edition of Israel Hayom, Israel's most widely circulated daily newspaper. He was formerly the Executive Editor and News Editor of The Jerusalem Post
The Jerusalem Post
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newspaper. Prior to joining The Jerusalem Post, he worked as a TV News producer at the Mail & Guardian
Mail & Guardian
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television in Johannesburg
Johannesburg
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, South Africa.

Mizroch joined the The Jerusalem Post in 2002 and served as the Managing Editor of the paper's website jpost.com. He was News Editor from 2004 to April 2010. On April 21 he was promoted to Executive Editor. He resigned in February 2011, after suffering a heart attack while on vacation.

Mizroch was born in Israel and raised in South Africa, returning to Israel in 2000. He has a Bachelor of Journalism and Media Studies from Rhodes University
Rhodes University
Rhodes University is a public research university located in Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, established in 1904. It is the province’s oldest university, and is one of the four universities in the province...

 in Grahamstown
Grahamstown
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, South Africa
South Africa
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.

Apart from directing the newspaper's news coverage and editing much of the 'Post's content, Mizroch wrote stories and analysis for the paper on a regular basis. He keeps his own blog called Forecast Highs.

Mizroch won a http://www.tristatebb.org/bbi_leadership_news3.htm Certificate of Merit award for Journalism from the B’nai B’rithWorld Center for his http://cgis.jpost.com/Blogs/reporters/ blog on American Jewish communities.

Mizroch is a member of the Bertelsmann Stiftung German Israeli Young Leaders Exchange program http://www.giyle.de/.

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