David S. Rohde | |
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David Rohde giving a lecture to Journalism students.
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Born |
David Stephenson Rohde August 7, 1967 Maine, United States |
Education | Brown University (B.A., 1990) |
Occupation | Investigative journalist |
Notable credit(s) |
Thomson Reuters journalist 1996 Pulitzer Prize winner 2010 Michael Kelly Award winner |
Spouse(s) | Kristen Mulvihill |
Website | http://www.davidrohde.com |
David Stephenson Rohde (born August 7, 1967) is an American author and investigative journalist for Thomson Reuters. While a reporter for The Christian Science Monitor, he won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1996 for his coverage of the Srebrenica massacre. From 2002 until 2005, he was co-chief of The New York Times' South Asia bureau, based in New Delhi, India. He shared a second Pulitzer Prize for Times 2009 team coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan. He is also a Global Affairs Analyst for CNN.
Rohde is a native of Maine. He is a graduate of Fryeburg Academy, a boarding school located in Fryeburg, Maine, attended Bates College, transferred to, and earned his Bachelor of Arts at Brown University in 1990. He is married to Kristen Mulvihill, a picture editor for Cosmopolitan magazine.
Rohde worked as a production secretary for the ABC News World News Tonight program from June 1990 to August 1991 and as a production associate for ABC's New Turning Point from January to July 1993. He has also worked as a freelance reporter based in the Baltic republics, Cuba, and Syria. He served as a county and municipal reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer from July 1993 to June 1994 before joining The Christian Science Monitor. He initially covered national news, reporting from Boston, New York City, and Washington, D.C.. In November 1994, he was sent to Zagreb, Croatia, to work as the newspaper's Eastern European correspondent, in which role he helped to expose the ethnic cleansing and genocide of the Muslim population of eastern Bosnia. He joined The New York Times in April 1996 and worked for them through mid-2011. He reported from Afghanistan for the first three months of the US-led war against the Taliban and served as co-chief of the Times's South Asia bureau from 2002 to 2005. More recently he worked as a member of the Times's investigations department in New York City.