Robert Jon Rosenthal
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Robert Jon "Rosey" Rosenthal | |
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 Rosenthal in 2018 | |
| Born | August 5, 1948 |
| Education | University of Vermont |
| Occupations | Journalist, editor |
| Spouse | Inez Katherina von Sternenfels (1985–2013) |
| Children | 3 |
| Parent(s) | Irving Rosenthal, Ruth Moss |
Robert Jon "Rosey" Rosenthal (born 1948) is a journalist, former editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer and managing editor of the San Francisco Chronicle.[1] Rosenthal currently holds the position of executive director of the Center for Investigative Reporting.[2] He is known for his work as an investigative reporter and foreign correspondent.[3] As an African correspondent for The Philadelphia Inquirer, Rosenthal won several journalism awards, including the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Distinguished Foreign Correspondence.[3][4]
Rosenthal is the son of Irving Rosenthal and Ruth Moss.[2] His father, Irving, was Professor of English and communication at the City College of New York; he created the first two journalism classes at the college in 1936.[5]
Rosenthal has two siblings: David, of Atlanta, Georgia, and Risa Finkel, of Huntington, New York.[5]
Career
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After graduating from the University of Vermont, where he was a member of the 1970 E.C.A.C. Division II championship ice hockey team,[6] Rosenthal went to work as a news assistant for The New York Times.[2] In the spring of 1971, he was an editorial assistant on the team that produced the Pentagon Papers, which exposed American activities in Southeast Asia.[7] He worked for the paper from 1970 to 1973.[2] From 1974 to 1979, he was a reporter for The Boston Globe.[2]
In 1979, he took a new job as reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer, where he stayed for 22 years.[1][2] Starting on the city desk, he became the paper’s Africa correspondent in 1982,[2] and also covered conflicts in Lebanon and Israel. He returned to Philadelphia in 1986 and became the paper’s foreign editor. During his five-year tenure as foreign editor, his staff won two Pulitzer Prizes.[3] In 1991, Rosenthal became the city editor.[2]
He became the paper’s executive editor on January 1, 1998.[8] At the time, the Inquirer was the 16th-largest daily newspaper in the United States.[8] During his term, he witnessed staff cuts and money-saving changes to the reporting process, including shorter stories and smaller photographs. Rosenthal left the Inquirer in late 2001.[2][9][10]
He then taught classes at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.[11] On September 11, 2002, he became managing editor for the San Francisco Chronicle.[11] He left that position in June 2007.[2]
In 2007, Rosenthal became the executive editor of The Chauncey Bailey Project, a team of journalists working for news outlets throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, tasked with investigating the murder of Oakland Post editor Chauncey Bailey.[12]
In January 2008, he became executive director of the Center for Investigative Reporting,[1] a nonprofit investigative news agency.[4] Since then, he has overseen the growth of the organization to what is now the largest nonprofit investigative reporting organization in the country, with a staff of 70 and budget of $11 million.[13]
