Congratulations to employees of The Jerusalem Post, now free of the tirades of Tom Rose (pictured in photo), who is out as CEO and publisher. Rose's tyrannical antics, which include the firing of a veteran employee who was in the midst of a battle with cancer, are well known to pretty much everyone inside Israel's journalism scene.
Rose's firing wasn't unexpected, since the Post is up for sale after the fallout from Conrad Black's ouster as CEO of Hollinger International, which owns the Post. Along with some other former executives, Black is suspected of taking millions of dollars in "unauthorized payments" from the company during his tenure. (Some people would call it embezzlement.)
Mark Ziman, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer at the Post, will temporarily take over Rose's post until a permanent replacement is found. Ziman isn't exactly known at the Post for his journalistic acumen. At a meeting a few months ago, shortly after it was revealed that recently released nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu would be renting an apartment in Jaffa, Ziman asked colleagues, "So who is this Vanunu guy moving into an apartment near me?"
