Hadas Gold (; born February 25, 1988) is a media and business reporter for

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and

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Early life

Gold was born to a

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family in

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, Israel, the daughter of Daphna and Yoram Gold. Her father is an

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veteran and project manager for a drug company; her mother is a Hebrew teacher. She moved to

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when she was 3 and is a 2006 graduate of Desert Mountain High School. She graduated with a B.A. in journalism and a M.A. in media and public affairs from

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. During school, she worked as a news and feature editor at ''

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'' where she received awards from the Society for Professional Journalists and the Associated College Press. In 2011, she was awarded a prestigious fellowship from the

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Career

Gold interned at ''

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'',

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, and with Cox Newspapers before working as a freelance producer with Colombian TV network NTN 24 and then at

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as a media reporter where she led the "On The Media" blog and covered the 2016 presidential campaign. She left Politico after five years to work for

as their politics, media and global business reporter. In 2017, Gold was named one of the "most influential media reporters" by

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. She currently sits on the National Council for the

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. In October 2016, Gold was targeted with

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threats, tweets and emails, including threats against her life. Other prominent Jewish journalists also received similar threats at the time, including

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;

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; editor-in-chief of ''

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'', Jonathan Weisman of the ''

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''; and

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of ''

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.'' Gold's employer at the time Politico, reported the threats to police. Gold states that: "I don’t want to say it’s something you just have to deal with, but the internet is both wonderful and not wonderful. You have to kind of take the good with the bad and react appropriately when it does seem serious." On May 27, 2018, Gold retweeted an ''Arizona Republic'' article of migrant children being held at an ICE detention facility, including photos of them in cages. The article was first tweeted by numerous other journalists and public figures following President

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's new policy of taking children away from parents who are caught unlawfully crossing the Mexican border into the United States including ''New York Times Magazine'' editor-in-chief Jake Silverstein,

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, Obama speechwriter

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, activist Linda Sarsour, and former Los Angeles mayor

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. Gold subsequently deleted her tweet writing "Deleted previous tweet because gave impression of recent photos (they’re from 2014)" after it emerged that the article was from 2014 during the administration of President

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Personal life

In 2017, she married economist Christopher Alex Hooton in Scottsdale.

References

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