Robert Jon Rosenthal

Robert Jon "Rosey" Rosenthal (born 1948) is a journalist, former editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer and managing editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. Rosenthal currently holds the position of executive director of the Center for Investigative Reporting. He is known for his work as an investigative reporter and foreign correspondent. As an African correspondent for The Philadelphia Inquirer, Rosenthal won several journalism awards, including the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Distinguished Foreign Correspondence.

Early life Rosenthal is the son of Irving Rosenthal and Ruth Moss.

Rosenthal has two siblings: David, of Atlanta, Georgia, and Risa Finkel, of Huntington, New York. Rosenthal went to work as a news assistant for The New York Times. He worked for the paper from 1970 to 1973. At the time, the Inquirer was the 16th-largest daily newspaper in the United States.

He then taught classes at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. On September 11, 2002, he became managing editor for the San Francisco Chronicle.

In January 2008, he became executive director of the Center for Investigative Reporting,

Awards and recognition In 1983, Rosenthal received the Third World Reporting Award from the National Association of Black Journalists.

While Rosenthal was managing editor, the San Francisco Chronicle won a Pulitzer Prize for its feature photography. From 2002 to 2005, 14 sports writers at the Chronicle were finalists for the Associated Press Sports Editors national award, more than any other paper with a comparable circulation.

The Center for Investigative Reporting has won Society of Professional Journalists Awards, Investigative Reporters and Editors Awards, a Scripps Howard Award, The George Polk Award, and The MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions. CIR was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2012.

Personal life Rosenthal married Inez Katherina von Sternenfels on November 22, 1985. They have three children together: Adam, Benjamin, and Ariella.