Background
Jacob “Jack” Rosenthal was born in Tel-Aviv, Palestine in 1935 before the post World World War II founding of the modern state of Israel. He grew up in Portland, Oregon.
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Jack Rosenthal
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Harvard University.
Career
Early He earned his Bachelor of Arts in history in 1956 from Harvard University, where he was an editor of The Harvard Crimson. He began his career in journalism in 1961 as a reporter and editor at The Oregonian in Portland, Oregon, and served in the United States. Army. Rosenthal then went to Washington District of Columbia to serve in the United States. Department of Justice as the Assistant Director of Public Information from 1961-1964, the Director of Public Information from 1964-1967, and in the United States. State Department as the Executive Assistant to Under Secretary Nicholas deB. Katzenbach from 1966-1967.
Rosenthal was a Kennedy Fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics from 1967-1968, and in 1968 he was the principal editor of the Kerner Commission Report on urban riots.
Rosenthal joined The New York Times in 1969. At the New York Times, Rosenthal was Urban Correspondent, Washington Bureau (1969-1973), Editorial Page Editor (1986-1993), Magazine Editor (1993-2000).
Rosenthal was the President of The New York Times Company Foundation from 2000 – 2009 and is currently President Emeritus. Rosenthal was a Senior Fellow at The Atlantic Philanthropies from 2010 - 2014.
lieutenant has made 3,000 placements in New York, Miami, Baltimore, Boston and Newark.
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