Robert Jon Rosenthal

Robert Jon "Rosey" Rosenthal
Born	1948
Education	University of Vermont
Occupation	Journalist, editor
Spouse(s)	Inez Katherina von Sternenfels (1985-2013)
Children	3
Parent(s)	Irving Rosenthal, Ruth Moss

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.

Rosenthal is the son of Irving Rosenthal and Ruth Moss. His father, Irving, was Professor of English and communication at the City College of New York; he created the first two journalism classes at the college in 1936.

Rosenthal has two siblings: David, of Atlanta, Georgia, and Risa Finkel, of Huntington, New York.

After graduating from the University of Vermont, where he was a member of the 1970 E.C.A.C. Division II championship ice hockey team, Rosenthal went to work as a news assistant for The New York Times. In the spring of 1971, he was an editorial assistant on the team that produced the Pentagon Papers, which exposed American activities in Southeast Asia. He worked for the paper from 1970 to 1973. From 1974 to 1979, he was a reporter for the Boston Globe.

In 1979, he took a new job as reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer, where he stayed for 22 years. Starting on the city desk, he became the paper’s Africa correspondent in 1982, and also covered conflicts in Lebanon and Israel. He returned to Philadelphia in 1986 and became the paper’s foreign editor. During his five-year tenure as foreign editor, his staff won two Pulitzer Prizes. In 1991, Rosenthal became the city editor.

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