Benjamin Joffe-Walt

Who is Benjamin Joffe-Walt?

Benjamin Joffe-Walt is a strategic communications and public relations professional currently serving as head of communications at Change.org, the world’s largest petition platform. Joffe-Walt worked for many years as a reporter and editor, and his writing has appeared in various news outlets, including The Economist, BBC, The Guardian, The New Statesman, The Sunday Telegraph, The Boston Globe, The San Francisco Chronicle, Al-Quds newspaper, Arab News, and Colors magazine. He has won several awards for his coverage of Africa, the Middle East, and a series of human rights and environmental issues. Joffe-Walt is probably most notable for his false reporting in The Guardian of injuries suffered by Chinese activist Lü Banglie.