Harry M. Rosenfeld
| Harry M. Rosenfeld | |
|---|---|
| Born |
August 12, 1929 Berlin, Germany |
| Occupation | Newspaper Editor |
| Spouse(s) | Anne Hahn (m. 1953) |
| Website | www |
Harry M. Rosenfeld (born August 12, 1929) is an American newspaper editor who was the editor in charge of local news at The Washington Post during the Richard Mattingly murder case and the Watergate scandal. He oversaw the newspaper's coverage of Watergate and resisted efforts by the paper's national reporters to take over the story. Though Post editor-in-chief Benjamin C. Bradlee gets most of the credit, managing editor Howard Simons and Rosenfeld worked most closely with reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein on developing the story. Rosenfeld published a memoir including an account of his work at the Post in 2013.
Rosenfeld was born in Berlin but his Jewish family fled Nazi Germany when he was ten. The family settled in The Bronx, New York City and Rosenfeld learned to speak English devoid of a German accent. After graduating from Syracuse University, Rosenfeld was hired as an editor at New York Herald-Tribune When it ceased publication circa 1967, Rosenfeld went to the Post.
Rosenfeld originally served as night foreign editor. When he moved to the metropolitan desk, he hired Woodward, who had just been discharged from the United States Navy and had no experience in journalism, on a three-week trial in August 1970. When the trial was up, Woodward had written seventeen stories, not one of which was deemed publishable. Rosenfeld told Woodward to get some experience elsewhere and come back in a year. Woodward frequently scooped the Post at his new paper, the Montgomery County Sentinel, in the Washington suburbs, and kept phoning Rosenfeld for a job. Rosenfeld hired him, starting September 15, 1971.
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