Mort Rosenblum is an American

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, editor

Editing

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 and journalist

Journalist

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Biography

Rosenblum joined the Associated Press at Newark in 1965. His international career began in 1967, when the AP sent him to cover mercenary wars in Congo. Since then Rosenblum has run AP bureaus in Kinshasa, Lagos, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Singapore, Buenos Aires, and Paris. From 1979 to 1981 he was editor of the International Herald Tribune but later returned to AP as special correspondent, based in Paris.

Rosenblum left AP in 2004, and in 2008, launched dispatches

Dispatches (magazine)

Dispatches is a quarterly magazine founded in 2008 by photographer Gary Knight, journalist and author Mort Rosenblum, and pharmaceutical executive Dr. Simba Gill....

, a quarterly magazine with co-editor Gary Knight

Gary Knight

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 and publisher Dr. Simba Gill. Additionally, Rosenblum is a professor of journalism at the University of Arizona, Tucson, where he teaches International Reporting.

Honors and Accomplishments

Rosenblum won an Overseas Press Club Award in 1989 and has been nominated for eight Pulitzer Prizes. Additionally, he won AP's top reporting award in 1990, 2000 and 2001.

Books

• Little Bunch of Madmen: Elements of Global Reporting (2010)
• Escaping Plato's Cave (2007)
• Chocolate: A Bittersweet Saga of Dark and Light (2006)
• A Goose in Toulouse (2000)
• Olives (2000)
• The Secret Life of the Seine (1995)
• Who Stole the News? (1993)
• The Abortion Pill (1991) With Etienne-Emile Baulieu.
• Squandering Eden (1990)
• Moments of Revolution - Eastern Europe (1990)
• Back Home: A Foreign Correspondent Rediscovers America (1989)
• Mission to Civilize (1988)
• Coups and Earthquakes (1981)

Recent Works

• Violence Threatens Mexico's Soul. Retrieved on 13-04-09.
• If We Fly Blind, Geese are the least of it. Retrieved on 13-04-09.

External links

• Mort Rosenblum.
• Little Bunch of Madmen website.
• dispatches/rethink dispatches.com: The online companion to the quarterly journal.
• No Mere 'Mort'al: Rosenblum Still Going Strong a profile written by JSAC Journal reporter Nathan Mitchell.
• Booknotes interview with Rosenblum on Back Home, October 1, 1989.