Steven Sotloff’s Editor Says He Got to ‘the Core of What People Were Thinking’
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iStock/Thinkstock(JERUSALEM) — The public is now learning more about American reporter Steven Sotloff following his murder by ISIS.
Sotloff, who took citizenship in Israel and wrote for Israeli newspapers, had a gift for capturing how ordinary people were affected by the Arab Spring, from Yemen to Egypt to Libya, his colleagues say.
Israel-based reporter Ilene Prusher, who was Sotloff’s editor for the Jerusalem Report in 2011 and 2012, says Sotloff’s murder is a great loss for journalists and the public.
Prusher says, “He would write things like, ‘We’re afraid the regime will basically just slaughter us and the world will do nothing.’ Or, ‘we asked for democracy and we got bullets.’ You know, he had this way of getting to the core of what people were thinking.”
Sotloff’s ties to Israel were reportedly kept away from the public eye once he was captured so as to not endanger his life.
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