Arthur Magi­da has been top edi­tor at Jew­ish Lights Pub­lish­ing and The Bal­ti­more Jew­ish Times, a pro­fes­sor at George­town and the Uni­ver­si­ty of Bal­ti­more, and appeared on nation­al PBS, CBS, ABC and NPR news shows. He has received 16 Simon Rock­ow­er Awards from the Amer­i­can Jew­ish Press Asso­ci­a­tion; two Smo­lar Awards for Excel­lence in Jew­ish Jour­nal­ism; and two Nation­al Mass Media Cer­tifi­cates from the Nation­al Con­fer­ence of Chris­tians and Jews.