Robert J. Rosenthal is CEO emeritus of the Center for Investigative Reporting. He joined Reveal as executive director in 2008, a position he held until 2017. Rosenthal worked for 22 years at the Philadelphia Inquirer, starting as a reporter and becoming its executive editor in 1998. He became managing editor of the San Francisco Chronicle in 2002. Before joining the Inquirer in 1979, Rosenthal worked as a reporter for the Boston Globe and the New York Times, where he was a news assistant on the foreign desk and an editorial assistant on the Pulitzer Prize–winning Pentagon Papers project. As a reporter, Rosenthal won numerous awards, including the Overseas Press Club Award for magazine writing, the Sigma Delta Chi Award for distinguished foreign correspondence, and the National Association of Black Journalists Award for Third World Reporting. Rosenthal has been a Pulitzer Prize judge four times and a Pulitzer Prize finalist in international reporting.
Dominique Martin was thrilled to get a state-funded voucher to send her daughter to private school. We go to Louisiana to investigate the cost of school choice.
Journalist Jason Rezaian has been imprisoned in Tehran, Iran, for more than 17 months. The Iranian authorities responsible need to know that many of us think about Rezaian and consider their actions cruel and unjust.
Dori Maynard, who died Tuesday in Oakland, California, was unbending in her commitment to diversity and upholding the highest ethical standards in journalism.
Your support for The Center for Investigative Reporting will be a strong vote of confidence in journalism to produce something we both deeply desire: Results.
The Center for Investigative Reporting and Public Radio Exchange have joined forces to create “Reveal,” a national radio pilot that will showcase investigative reporting and its impact.
At CIR, we believe journalism that moves citizens to action is an essential pillar of democracy. For more than three decades, CIR has relentlessly pursued and uncovered injustices that otherwise would be hidden from the public eye. Today, we are upholding this legacy and looking forward, working at the forefront of journalistic innovation to produce important stories that make a difference and engage our audiences across the aisle, coast to coast, and worldwide. What drives our work isn’t profit – it’s impact.
We’re taking some of CIR’s work to the stage to tell our stories in a new way, reach a new audience on issues that matter and, hopefully, form a powerful connection with the audience.
Join our members for a conference call with Phil Bronstein, CIR’s executive chairman and author of “The Shooter,” and Robert Rosenthal, CIR’s executive editor, on Thursday at 9 a.m. PST.
