Tina Rosenberg
Encyclopedia
Tina Rosenberg is a Pulitzer Prize
-winning journalist
and author
. She frequently writes for The New York Times Magazine
.
In 1987 she won a MacArthur Fellowship, which she used to move to South America
. Her experiences there led to her first work, Children of Cain: Violence and the Violent in Latin America. Her work has appeared in The New Republic
, The New Yorker
, and the Washington Post. She is a fellow at the World Policy Institute
, and won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
, as well as a National Book Award
in 1995 for her book The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism
, about the fall of Communism
in Eastern Europe
. Currently, she is an editorial writer for The New York Times
. Rosenberg received her bachelor's and master's degrees from Northwestern University
. As a youth outside Lansing, Michigan, Rosenberg was active in her synagogue and regional Jewish youth groups, including serving as Songleader for Michigan State Temple Youth in 1976-1977.
Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
-winning journalist
Journalism
Journalism is the practice of investigation and reporting of events, issues and trends to a broad audience in a timely fashion. Though there are many variations of journalism, the ideal is to inform the intended audience. Along with covering organizations and institutions such as government and...
and author
Author
An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...
. She frequently writes for The New York Times Magazine
The New York Times Magazine
The New York Times Magazine is a Sunday magazine supplement included with the Sunday edition of The New York Times. It is host to feature articles longer than those typically in the newspaper and has attracted many notable contributors...
.
In 1987 she won a MacArthur Fellowship, which she used to move to South America
South America
South America is a continent situated in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere. The continent is also considered a subcontinent of the Americas. It is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east...
. Her experiences there led to her first work, Children of Cain: Violence and the Violent in Latin America. Her work has appeared in The New Republic
The New Republic
The magazine has also published two articles concerning income inequality, largely criticizing conservative economists for their attempts to deny the existence or negative effect increasing income inequality is having on the United States...
, The New Yorker
The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...
, and the Washington Post. She is a fellow at the World Policy Institute
World Policy Institute
The World Policy Institute, a non-partisan policy institute which claims to develop policies that require a progressive ideology. WPI focuses on cooperative policies in order to achieve : an inclusive and sustainable global market economy, engaged global civic participation and effective...
, and won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
The Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction has been awarded since 1962 for a distinguished book of non-fiction by an American author that is not eligible for consideration in another category.-1960s:...
, as well as a National Book Award
National Book Award
The National Book Awards are a set of American literary awards. Started in 1950, the Awards are presented annually to American authors for literature published in the current year. In 1989 the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization which now oversees and manages the National Book...
in 1995 for her book The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism
The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism
The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism written by Tina Rosenberg and published by Random House in 1995, won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and the 1995 National Book Award-References:...
, about the fall of Communism
Communism
Communism is a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of a classless, moneyless, revolutionary and stateless socialist society structured upon common ownership of the means of production...
in Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe is the eastern part of Europe. The term has widely disparate geopolitical, geographical, cultural and socioeconomic readings, which makes it highly context-dependent and even volatile, and there are "almost as many definitions of Eastern Europe as there are scholars of the region"...
. Currently, she is an editorial writer for The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
. Rosenberg received her bachelor's and master's degrees from Northwestern University
Northwestern University
Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....
. As a youth outside Lansing, Michigan, Rosenberg was active in her synagogue and regional Jewish youth groups, including serving as Songleader for Michigan State Temple Youth in 1976-1977.
Works
- Join the Club: How Peer Pressure Can Transform the World (W.W. Norton, 2011)
- The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After CommunismThe Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After CommunismThe Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism written by Tina Rosenberg and published by Random House in 1995, won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and the 1995 National Book Award-References:...
(Random HouseRandom HouseRandom House, Inc. is the largest general-interest trade book publisher in the world. It has been owned since 1998 by the German private media corporation Bertelsmann and has become the umbrella brand for Bertelsmann book publishing. Random House also has a movie production arm, Random House Films,...
, 1996) - Children of Cain: Violence and the Violent in Latin America (Random House, 1991)
External links
- Columbia UniversityColumbia UniversityColumbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
World Leaders Forum: Tina Rosenberg - Pulitzer.org: Tina Rosenberg
- Posts by Tina Rosenberg in The New York TimesThe New York TimesThe New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
Opinion Pages