Romy Neumark

Romy Neumark is a renowned figure in Israeli journalism, celebrated for her innovative and impactful approach over the past two decades. She has leveraged the power of news reporting to promote social change and advocate for gender equality and diversity.

Neumark currently brings her extensive experience to her academic work at Harvard University, where she teaches media, documentary filmmaking, and journalism in the Hebrew language. She is known for introducing and implementing new pedagogies in her classes, combining hands-on journalistic experience, new technologies, and a learning community approach. Her research and teaching interests are particularly focused on journalism training programs and initiatives aimed at equipping journalists to better cover the complexities of the region and Israel.

During the 2023-2024 academic year, Neumark served as a Gerard Weinstock Visiting Lecturer at the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (NELC) and she is also a Fellow at Harvard's Center for Jewish Studies.

Neumark was awarded the prestigious Nieman Fellowship for journalists at Harvard (2022-2023), after 5 years in the position of senior news anchor at KAN, Israel's public broadcasting corporation. In this role, she created and hosted the daily "Night News" television program, as well as a weekly radio interview show. Neumark also led a peer mentoring initiative that fostered excellence, professional growth, and inclusivity among journalists in the newsroom. Earlier in her career, she reported in-depth magazine stories and anchored news programs for prominent Israeli outlets, including Channel 10 News, Galei Tzahal radio station, and the digital version of Ma'ariv newspaper.