Craigslist founder Craig Newmark will be a frequent visitor to the Center for Investigative Reporting in the months ahead, with the goal of learning more about how investigative reporters do their work and how CIR is creating its multimedia storytelling. Craig, who concedes a deep interest in but not a great deal of knowledge about […]
Author Archives: Robert J. Rosenthal
Board Member
Robert J. Rosenthal is a board member at The Center for Investigative Reporting. An award-winning journalist, Rosenthal has worked for some of the most respected newspapers in the country, including The New York Times, Boston Globe, Philadelphia Inquirer and the San Francisco Chronicle. Rosenthal worked for 22 years at the Inquirer, starting as a reporter and eventually becoming its executive editor in 1998. He became managing editor of the San Francisco Chronicle in late 2002, and joined CIR as executive director in 2008. Before joining the Inquirer in 1979, Rosenthal worked as a reporter for six years at The Boston Globe and three-and-a-half years at 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. He was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in international reporting. Rosenthal was a Pulitzer Prize judge four times. He has been an adjunct professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the University of California at Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
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Reporting on U.S. veterans: An interview with CIR’s Aaron Glantz
Hear our interview with CIR reporter Aaron Glantz about his ongoing investigation into the state of veterans affairs across the United States.
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Bay Citizen, CIR merger brings changes
For me, it has always been about the story. Today, as the merger between the Center for Investigative Reporting and The Bay Citizen becomes official, it will continue to be about the story.
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Merger offers chance to weave journalism, entrepreneurial spirit
The opportunities that lie ahead for everyone at the Center for Investigative Reporting are energizing and exciting. And the challenges are daunting. Our merger with The Bay Citizen announced today puts us in a unique position as journalists, innovators, technologists and, yes, entrepreneurs. I worked in newspapers for decades, starting as a copy boy and […]
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California Watch ‘Decoding Prime’ series honored with Polk award
I am privileged and honored to write today that the Center for Investigative Reporting’s California Watch has won the George Polk Award for our multi-platform series on aggressive billing practices at a Southern California hospital chain, Prime Healthcare Services.
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CIR receives $1 million MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions
At a time of extreme change and turmoil in the world of news, MacArthur’s recognition and investment in CIR underscores the value and influence investigative news has in today’s world.
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Reinventing Journalism: 10 lessons learned (in no particular order)
I’ve learned many lessons in my time at the Center for Investigative Reporting. Some I knew already. Others I had forgotten. And then there were some new things I should have known and had to learn the hard way.
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Part 4: Business development strategies are key to future success
As 2011 began, the Center for Investigative Reporting and its robust new creation, California Watch, were in good shape. We had received a great deal of positive publicity the previous year and earned recognition within the journalism community, which helped with fundraising.
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Part 3: With burgeoning staff, California Watch comes to life
As reporters and editors began to arrive from around the country in August 2009, we had the energy, and the chaos, of a startup.
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Part 2: Diving into the world of fundraising brings many lessons
The Center for Investigative Reporting was poised to undergo a dramatic relaunch in the spring of 2008, taking us fully into the age of the Internet and beyond, but if you visited our humble Berkeley office, it would have been impossible to imagine the changes ahead.