Robert J. Rosenthal

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, and 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. He has won numerous awards as a reporter, 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 judge four times and a Pulitzer finalist in international reporting.