Richard Roth (journalist)
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1955 (age 69–70)
Richard Roth | |
|---|---|
| Born | Richard Roth 1955 (age 69–70) |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Notable credit(s) | Gulf War One, revolution in Prague, Romania, Berlin Wall fall, Tiananmen Square protests, Achille Lauro hijacking, American political conventions, 9-11 at World Trade Center. |
Richard Roth (born 1955) is an American journalist,[1] a CNN correspondent who covers the United Nations.[2][3] He was the host of Diplomatic License (until its cancellation in January 2006), a weekly program that was devoted to United Nations affairs. Roth is a CNN "original" — one of the first employees when the network launched in 1980. He has covered a wide range of stories over the last 25 years, from the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the first Gulf War.
Roth was born into a Jewish family,[4] Roth graduated from New York University with a degree in journalism.[5] Roth lived in Whitestone, Queens, in the early 1970s. Before CNN, he was a news anchor and reporter for AP Radio and a producer for WPIX-TV in New York City.[5]