Fran Ostendorf selected as new editor

The search is over. For several months, The Jewish Voice has been seeking a permanent editor to pilot this beloved publication. It is with great pleasure that we announce the appointment of Fran Ostendorf as editor.

Ostendorf comes with a vast amount of newspaper experience. She attended the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and has worked at daily publications in Utah, Ohio and Rhode Island. She served as a copy editor at the Providence Journal for nearly 20 years and spent the last five years freelancing.  She has performed copy editing, proofreading, web research and writing for a variety of clients, including the Laureate Higher Education Group, Kaplan Aspect, Creative Circle Media Solutions, Brown University and financial consultants.

A resident of Seekonk, Fran is part of the greater RI Jewish Community and sent her now-adult children to the Alliance JCC Early Childhood Center. 

“I’ve been reading The Voice since we arrived in the Providence area. Now I’m looking forward to meeting and featuring the diverse Jewish community of Rhode Island in The Voice,” said Ostendorf. “This paper offers a unique opportunity to highlight events and people in our community in a way that other publications can’t.”