Andrew Rosenthal
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Andrew Rosenthal became an Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times in June 2016 after more than nine years as the Editorial Page editor of The Times, overseeing the newspaper’s Opinion section. He previously was deputy Editorial Page editor, starting in August 2003. Before that, Mr. Rosenthal had been an assistant managing editor since September 2001 and the foreign editor beginning in May 1997. He also served as national editor of The Times for six months in 2000, supervising coverage of the presidential election and the post-election recount.
Mr. Rosenthal was The Times’s Washington editor beginning in November 1992. He joined the company in March 1987 as a Washington correspondent. While in Washington, he covered the first Bush administration, the 1988 and 1992 presidential elections and the Persian Gulf War. He also supervised coverage of the 1994 and 1996 national elections.
He was the primary editor of The Times’s special daily section “A Nation Challenged” following the 9/11 attacks. The section won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2002. In 2015, he led the creation of a series of editorials on the scourge of firearms in the United States, including the first Page One editorial The Times had published in nearly a century. The series was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in editorial writing.
Before arriving at The Times, Mr. Rosenthal worked at The Associated Press, where, since July 1986, he had been its bureau chief in Moscow, following three years there as a correspondent for the wire service. His other assignments with The A.P. included editor on the foreign desk in New York from April 1982 until June 1983 and reporter in the Denver bureau from October 1978 until April 1982.
Born in New Delhi on Feb. 25, 1956, Mr. Rosenthal attended high school in New York. He graduated from the University of Denver with a B.A. in American history in 1978. While in college, Mr. Rosenthal was a sports stringer for The A.P. from January to April 1976 and a part-time police reporter for The Rocky Mountain News from October 1976 to June 1977.