Author

Robert J. Rosenthal

@rosey18

Robert J. Rosenthal is the executive director of the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) and was one of the organizers of the Civil Rights Cold Case Project, which is based at CIR. He was editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer and managing editor of the San Francisco Chronicle before joining CIR in 2008.

The Enduring Ambition of the Civil Rights Cold Case Project

‘What I didn’t know going in was how inspired I’d feel by hearing these journalists share fragments from their work that spoke to why telling these stories mattered to them—and…
September 7, 2011

Optimism in a Time of Chaos and Change

‘I have faith that new models of journalism are going to fly out of this whirlpool of change and be successful.’
December 15, 2007