Ashley Rindsberg

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Ashley Rindsberg
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Rindsberg in 2020
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Years active2011–present

Ashley Rindsberg is an American writer and a senior editor at Pirate Wires , an American online media company. He is the author of Tel Aviv Stories (2011) and The Gray Lady Winked: How The New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions & Fabrications Radically Alter History (2021).

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Early life and education

Ashley Rindsberg graduated from Cornell University with a degree in philosophy and a BA in science and technology studies, focusing on the philosophy of science and innovation theory. [1]

Career

Rindsberg has taught and tutored in writing. [1] In 2001, Rindsberg began working with the History of Recent Science and Technology Project at the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology at MIT. This was a project to digitize the printed archive at the Cornell Center for Materials Science. [1]

In May 2003, he was working with the Internet Archive on their bookmobile project. [2] [1] By that August, he was in Alexandria to help build one for Bibliotheca Alexandrina. [3]

Rindsberg is a contributor to PragerU. [4] Rindsberg announced in October 2024 that he was joining the blog Pirate Wires as a senior editor. [5] In November 2024, Rindsberg wrote articles for the blog about Wikipedia and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. [6] [7] Rindsberg has published articles accusing Wikipedia of bias, for example in its coverage of the shooting of Charlie Kirk. In September 2025, Stephen Harrison wrote in Slate: "Like much of Rindsberg's work, the point isn't to provide information to readers about what's happening on Wikipedia, but to stoke further outrage for attention." [8]

Books

Tel Aviv Stories (2011)

After moving to Tel Aviv, Rindsberg published his first book, Tel Aviv Stories, in 2011. The work is a collection of seven fictional short stories based on the people he met while wandering the city's underbelly at night. The Jerusalem Post described Rindsberg's writing as "measured and inviting", with the book displaying a "depth of feeling." [9] [10] [11] Naomi Firestone-Teeter, CEO of the Jewish Book Council, added the book to her recommending reading. [12]

The Gray Lady Winked (2021)

In 2021, Rindsberg wrote about alleged misreporting by The New York Times in his book The Gray Lady Winked: How The New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions & Fabrications Radically Alter History. The book was a response to Rindsberg learning from William L. Shirer’s The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich that, at the outset of World War II, the New York Times reported Poland invaded Germany. In any case, Rindsberg said he was inspired to write on the history of The Times' mistakes and the ramifications thereof, accusing the paper of "manufacturing false narratives that serve the paper's political interests" in his book. [13] [14]

Max Hunder wrote in the Kyiv Post that the "main body of his work is factual and well-researched and can be read as a reasonable case for the prosecution against the journalistic mistakes" of the New York Times. However, Hunder notes the book's preface was written by controversial professor Mark Crispin Miller, which Rindsberg says he included because the book was about media narratives. [15] In the Times of Israel, journalist Sheldon Kirshner wrote "Rindsberg's sweeping indictment of the Times seems unfair and essentially wrong. The Times has hurtled off the rails on a few unfortunate occasions, as he shows, but it remains the gold standard in contemporary journalism." [16]

Other works

In 2019, he was working on In The Heart of the Jungle, a novel that drew from his own homes and travels around the world. [10]

Personal life

In the mid-2000s, [9] he moved to Tel Aviv, Israel, where he was living as of 2019. As of June 2019, he was married to a Londoner. [10]

He is Jewish. [17]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Computer Systems Laboratory Colloquium: 4:15PM, Wednesday, May 21, 2003: About the speaker". Stanford University . May 21, 2003. Archived from the original on June 13, 2021. Retrieved January 3, 2026.
  2. ↑ Schofield, Jack (May 1, 2005). "Drive to put in a good word". The Guardian . ISSN   1756-3224. OCLC   60623878. Archived from the original on March 18, 2024. Retrieved October 25, 2024. The goal –to provide universal access to all knowledge. But the issue of copyright is proving an impediment, writes Jack Schofield
  3. ↑ "Internet Archive Bookmobile". Internet Archive. Archived from the original on August 14, 2003. Retrieved October 25, 2024.
  4. ↑ "Ashley Rindsberg". PragerU. Retrieved January 18, 2026.
  5. ↑ Rindsberg, Ashley [@AshleyRindsberg] (October 14, 2024). "I'm really excited to announce that I've joined @PirateWires as Senior Editor" (Tweet). Archived from the original on October 14, 2024. Retrieved June 5, 2025– via Twitter.
  6. ↑ Merlin, Ohad (November 3, 2024). "Wikipedia in Arabic: A hotbed for bigotry, misinformation, and bias - investigative report". The Jerusalem Post . ISSN   0792-822X. OCLC   15700704. Archived from the original on January 15, 2025. Retrieved February 3, 2025. Disinformation, generalizations, and outright lies are allowed to go unchecked on the free encyclopedia's Arabic version.
  7. ↑ Merlin, Ohad (December 12, 2024). "Wikipedia suspends pro-Palestine editors coordinating efforts behind the scenes". The Jerusalem Post . ISSN   0792-822X. OCLC   15700704. Archived from the original on January 28, 2025. Retrieved February 3, 2025. Measures were taken by an arbitration committee following off-wiki coordination endeavors
  8. ↑ Harrison, Stephen (September 17, 2025). "Why Right-Wing Outlets Attacked Wikipedia After Charlie Kirk's Shooting". Slate. ISSN   1091-2339 . Retrieved September 23, 2025.
  9. 1 2 Last, Jeremy (June 23, 2011). "Street talk". The Jerusalem Post . ISSN   0792-822X. OCLC   15700704. Archived from the original on May 28, 2022. Retrieved October 25, 2024. 'Tel Aviv Stories' showcases the city's underbelly, warts and all.
  10. 1 2 3 Danan, Deborah (June 19, 2019). "Ashley Rindsberg is the American Novelist". The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles . Archived from the original on September 2, 2024. Retrieved October 25, 2024.
  11. ↑ "Tel Aviv Stories: Life, Death, and Love in Israel's Unholy City". Kirkus Indie. Kirkus Reviews . September 9, 2014. ISSN   1948-7428. Archived from the original on May 7, 2021. Retrieved October 25, 2024.
  12. ↑ Firestone-Teeter, Noami (March 8, 2011). "JBC Bookshelf: Expanded Edition". Jewish Book Council . Retrieved October 23, 2025.
  13. ↑ Jivani, Jamil (August 18, 2022). Roberts, Rob (ed.). "The Times' credibility problem". National Post . Vol. 24, no. 245. p. A9. ISSN   1486-8008.
  14. ↑ Ball, Krystal; Enjeti, Saagar; Rindsberg, Ashley (May 14, 2021). "Journalist Ashley Rindsberg discusses how errors at the NYT can distort reality for readers". Rising . Nexstar Media Group. Archived from the original on November 16, 2022. Retrieved October 25, 2024.
  15. ↑ Hunder, Max (May 31, 2021). "'The Gray Lady Winked' takes on the New York Times". Kyiv Post . Retrieved October 23, 2025.
  16. ↑ Kirshner, Sheldon. "The Blogs: The Gray Lady Winked" . Retrieved January 1, 2026.
  17. ↑ Rindsberg, Ashley (December 5, 2022). "Jewish Life Is Cheap". Tablet . ISSN   1551-2940. Archived from the original on December 4, 2024. Retrieved March 10, 2025.[ better source needed ]
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