Journalism Portfolio
Nukes, human resources, bootlegging and the world’s oldest profession…
Dinah’s international journalism career has spanned high politics and age-old vices.
Starting out as a journalist for the leading business-to-business title Travel Weekly, Dinah moved on to global politics and social issues.
In Europe, Dinah wrote for the New York Times about architecture, discrimination and bootlegging. She also reported on Russia, nuclear proliferation and Barack Obama for USA Today.
The crucial role of crisis communications became evident to Dinah as she covered the wars in former Yugoslavia and the collapse of several European governments. Dinah also chronicled Huaweii’s public relations disaster in the midst of spying accusations.
Dinah assumed a leadership role as news editor for the top Central European daily, The Prague Post, where she led groundbreaking coverage of prostitution, international politics and business transparency.
Dinah has also reported for Conde Nast Traveler, Elle , Women’s E-News, Canadian Medical Journal, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Irish Times, The Independent and The Jerusalem Post. Her coverage frequently focused on gender and minorities. In 2008 Dinah created her own global news agency, All Star Reports. Over ten years, All Star Reports placed thousands of celebrity-themed articles in more than 30 newspapers and magazines in Europe, South Africa, the United States and Australia.
Versatility is what characterizes Dinah’s writing, which she can adapt to any target audience.
Dinah’s content writing and communications strategy clients have included human resources tech firms, finance leaders, pharmaceutical companies and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
news and current affairs
USA TODAY
Gas leak suspected in Prague explosion
Emergency workers used sniffer dogs Monday to search for people who may have been trapped in rubble when a powerful explosion rocked the old quarter of the Czech capital that is often filled with tourists and backpackers.
JEWISH TELEGRAPHIC AGENCY
The Making of Islamic Terrorists
After the July 7, 2005 public transit bombings in London, Ahmed woke up, looked around his neighborhood and was troubled by what he saw. Three of the four bombers were from nearby Leeds and, like him, they had Pakistani backgrounds.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Often Shunted Into Special Schools, Gypsies Fight Back
Czech Republic officials estimate that up to 75 percent of Roma children are attending schools intended for the mentally disabled, receiving what human rights groups contend is a substandard education that can lead to a lifetime of unemployment, dependence on welfare and even crime.
CMAJ
Obesity epidemic migrates east
A dramatic decrease in physical activity and an influx of junk food following the collapse of the Berlin Wall have triggered an epidemic of obesity among Eastern Europeans.
THE IRISH TIMES
Choirmaster who abused 40 girls escapes jail
A Czech court has found the director of the internationally acclaimed children's singing ensemble Bambini di Praga guilty of molesting 40 teenage girls between 1984 and 2003.
INHOUSE LEGAL
Banning China's Huawei?
EU countries are divided on whether or not to allow the Chinese telecommunications giant build 5G network infrastructure.
JEWISH TELEGRAPHIC AGENCY
Tough times drive European voters to far right
Gains by anti-Semitic, xenophobic and racist far-right parties in June 4-7 elections for European Parliament were a reminder of how voters across Europe gravitate toward fringe parties and extremists during tough economic times.
JEWISH TELEGRAPHIC AGENCY
Europe, U.S. standing shoulder to shoulder on Iran
The united European-American front on Iran is not new, but three relatively recent developments have strengthened the alliance since Iran’s nuclear ambitions became an international preoccupation.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Czech Ban Hard Liquor Sales After Methanol Poisonings
The Czech Republic has banned the sale of liquor containing 20 percent or higher alcohol content after at least 20 people were killed and dozens of others were seriously injured from consuming methanol-tainted spirits.
WOMEN'S eNEWS
Czech Exhibit Shows Ads That Degrade Women
A woman’s cut-off torso, bound in leather, towers 50 feet above a heavily trafficked city street here. For the thousands of people who pass the billboard of the giant, enslaved torso each day, her enormous and exposed cleavage blocks the view of the sky.
WOMEN'S eNEWS
Sterilized Roma Say They Did Not Consent
Any Roma women say they may have signed a paper indicating consent, but they did not understand what they were signing because it was not explained to them, or else they signed it under intense pressure just before giving birth. They claim they were specifically targeted because of their race.
THE JERUSALEM POST
THE Celebrity Birth of the Decade
Angelina Jolie brought her twins into the world on Shabbat. That fact may have been overlooked last week by the thousands of media outlets covering the birth, but the timing did not escape Dr. Michel Sussmann, Jolie's Jewish obstetrician.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Not a Bird or a Plane, but Home
Perched at the base of the Beskydy Mountains in the Czech Republic is a titanium-plated house in the fanciful shape of a bird with wings extended. The steel-and-glass structure in the picturesque northeastern region is the home of Pavel Horak, the chief executive of PPL.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
A Home on a Slope, With Floors to Match
The house has almost no internal walls or doors and few level floors — most are ramps that traverse the interior. It’s not surprising that local architecture critics have dubbed this 1,300-square-foot structure “the marshmallow house.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Prague Looks Back to Its Revolution
“Remembrance of bad things past” is one way to describe Prague’s reflective mood as it marks Nov. 17, the 20th anniversary of the start of the Velvet Revolution that ousted the Communist regime.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Living Against the Grain in the Czech Republic
Radim Kralik and his wife live in a modern concrete box on top of a 1943 grain silo, a stark contrast to the neo-Gothic spires that dominate this small city about 175 miles east of Prague.
THE JERUSALEM POST
The Golem in Prague’s Closet
According to legend, Prague’s most famous rabbi, the 16th-century Judah Loew ben Bezalel, magically made a mute clay being who alternately protected and rampaged through the Prague ghetto where Jews were required to live.
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
Czechs really hate this U.S. import
The Czechs rid themselves of the hammer and the sickle, only to be beset by another foreign invader: Santa Claus.
THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
Polish city throws bubble party on playground over Jewish graves
The chief rabbi of Poland sent an angry letter to the mayor of Kazimierz Dolny this week, condemning the eastern Polish town for throwing a festive children’s bubble party on the site of a former Jewish cemetery where dead are still buried.
THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
Condoms and tikkun olam: An Orthodox woman strives to aid sex workers
Not long after she puts away her silver Shabbat candlesticks and home-baked challah, Yael Schoultz walks through a cavernous hallway, and up a set of gray concrete stairs. Past a door, she finds a group of heavily made-up women in red and black G-strings and spike heels, listlessly beckoning men for sex in return for cash.
THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
Holocaust survivor, 95, flees solo from his home near Babyn Yar, makes it to Poland
Before this month, the last time Evgeny Pavlovskiy left the Kyiv area was during World War II, when his Jewish family hid from the Nazis in Russia’s Ural Mountains.
THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
Orthodox father and son pick up arms, ready to defend their Ukraine hometown
JTA — Until just a few months ago, David Cherkaskyi was finishing a degree in cybersecurity, praying at his Chabad synagogue, and posting selfies from his travels across the Jewish world. Now, he’s standing by in his hometown of Dnipro, Ukraine, “ready to kill Russian soldiers.”
Travel
TRAVEL WEEKLY
Report card for luxury hotels in France, Italy
Europe editor Dinah A. Spritzer tested the limits of luxury at hotels in France and Italy.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
A Czech City Reclaims its Past
A former mining town in the Czech Republic that once epitomized Communist-era bleakness is embracing its industrial heritage, with a little help from punk rock, an all-night party street and a “castle” made of steel.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Prague: What's New in the Cube
In August, leaders of New Stage covered an overlooked lot behind Prague’s National Theater with grass. They then invited the public to sit down and use the installation for dining, wining and lingering.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Saluting the Golem
Along the alleys of the Jewish Quarter lined with ”Czech-me-out” t-shirts and tacky Russian nesting dolls, there is a mute monster ready to trample errant tourists or save locals from the latest plague.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Save or Splurge: Prague
When you awaken in one of the eight rooms of the 14th-century Domus Henrici, you can either look out your window to see glorious Petrin Hill and Strahov Monastery or step outside and observe the bucolic scene from one of two terraces.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Glamour Revives Port of Batumi
An illuminated tower soars above the clear Black Sea and the mist-covered Caucasus mountains surrounding the port town of Batumi, Georgia.
Content Writing
TIME IS LTD
Email is here to stay. Here’s how to make it work for your organization
Whether you're the CEO, a middle manager or just starting your career, you are very likely drowning in email. On average, you devote 28% of your work week to emails. The necessity of remote work amid the resurgence of Covid-19 has only increased the email burden. During the pandemic, internal work emails are up by around 5 percent. For companies trying to attract and retain talent, email culture is a good place to start.
TIME IS LTD
There’s a single effective management style; it’s the one that motivates employees to be their best.
Hint: It doesn’t involve a “gun” to the head As Sir Alan Jones, chairman emeritus of Toyota UK, told the advocacy group Engage for Success: “Wherever you work, your job as a manager is to make your people be the best they can be – and usually they don’t know just how good they could be. It’s individuals that make the difference.” But one could argue that holding a metaphorical gun, (or any other weapon), to someone’s head is highly motivating when you want them to be productive. However, such a negative approach, known as the coercive style, has limited short-term gains.
LINKEDIN
Size matters: Organizational network analytics can save your company millions
Veteran journalist and prior New York Times contributor Dinah Spritzer interviewed Time is Ltd. CEO Jan Rezab in the second of our series on analytics and the Future of Work.
TIME IS LTD
The hidden Cost of Remote Work? Your Onboarding took a Nosedive
Remote work is here to stay even in countries where the pandemic is easing. Spotify just announced it would let its employees work from anywhere. Salesforce said the 9-5 work day is dead; Twitter and Square are letting employees work from home, forever. This is a 100-percent victory for productivity, right?
Brownfields Job TrainingGrants Create Double Benefits In Puerto Rico
The Challenge After years of environmental neglect and a string of hurricanes, communities across Puerto Rico were devastated and needed help. When Category 5 Hurricane Irma hit Puerto Rico in September 2017, followed two weeks later by Category 4 Hurricane Maria, severe flooding contaminated residents’ drinking water, air, and food supply. This contamination also increased the dangers posed by more than 150 brownfields in the process of redevelopment, such as closed gas stations, shuttered public schools, light industrial sites, empty lots, and abandoned storefronts
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