Jacob "Jack" Rosenthal | |
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| Born | (1935-06-30)30 June 1935 |
| Died | 23 August 2017(2017-08-23) (aged 82) Manhattan,New York City, U.S. |
| Occupation | Journalist Soldier Government official Executive |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Harvard University |
| Spouse | Holly Russell |
| Children | John Rosenthal, Annie Sindelar stepsons Christopher and Andrew Russell |
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Jacob "Jack"Rosenthal (30 June 1935 – 23 August 2017)[1] was an American journalist, editor and executive best known for his work atThe New York Times. He won thePulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing in 1982.
Jacob "Jack" Rosenthal was born to aJewish family inTel Aviv,Mandatory Palestine in 1935 before the post World War II founding of the modern state ofIsrael. He grew up inPortland,Oregon. His father, Manfred Rosenthal, was a judge and later a bookkeeper.[2][3]
He earned his A.B. in history in 1956 fromHarvard University, where he was executive editor ofThe Harvard Crimson.
Rosenthal began his career in journalism in 1961 as a reporter and editor atThe Oregonian in Portland, Oregon, and served in the U.S. Army.
He then went to Washington D.C. to serve in theU.S. Department of Justice as the assistant director of Public Information from 1961 to 1964, the Director of Public Information from 1964 to 1967, and in theU.S. State Department as the Executive Assistant to Under SecretaryNicholas Katzenbach from 1966 to 1967.
Rosenthal was a Kennedy Fellow at theHarvard Institute of Politics from 1967 to 1968. During his fellowship, he served as principal editor of theKerner Commission Report on urban riots.
Rosenthal joinedThe New York Times in 1969. At theNew York Times, Rosenthal was national urban affairs correspondent in the Washington bureau (1969–1973), assistant Sunday editor (1973–1976), deputy editorial page editor (1976–1986), editorial page editor (1986–1993) and editor ofThe New York Times Magazine (1993–2000). In 1982, he won thePulitzer Prize for distinguished editorial writing on national politics and social policy.
Rosenthal was the president ofThe New York Times Company Foundation from 2000 to 2009. Thereafter, he was a senior fellow atThe Atlantic Philanthropies from 2010 to 2014.[4] From 2014 to 2015, he was interim director of Roosevelt House, a public policy institute atHunter College.
Rosenthal was the founder and chairman of ReServe, an award-winning nonprofit that connects skilled older adults with work at public and nonprofit service agencies. It has made 3,000 placements in New York, Miami, Baltimore, Boston and Newark.[5]
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