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An award-winning journalist with nearly 40 years of experience at some of the largest and most well-respected newspapers in the U.S., Robert Rosenthal explains why a new model for journalism is essential to democracy in America.
An award-winning journalist with nearly 40 years of experience, Rosenthal has worked for some of the most respected newspapers in the country, including The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Philadelphia Inquirer where he was Executive Editor, and the San Francisco Chronicle where he was Managing Editor. Rosenthal is now Executive Director of Center for Investigative Reporting. As a reporter, his awards include the Overseas Press Club Award for magazine writing, the Sigma Delta Chi Award for distinguished foreign correspondence, and the National Association of Black Journalists Award for Third World Reporting. He has also been in charge of the award winning Chauncey Bailey Project and was an editorial assistant on the Pulitzer Prize winning `Pentagon Papers Project' while at The New York Times. He has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in international reporting and a Pulitzer judge four times.
What is your momentum? I am driven by the passion to build a new model for journalism, so that talented, passionate people can create high quality, high impact journalism. A new model must be created for that work, which is essential to democracy.
