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Matthew Rosenberg (born August 2, 1974) is a Pulitzer-Prize winning
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journalist. He worked at ''
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'' from 2011 to April, 2024''.'' He spent 15 years as a foreign correspondent in
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and the
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, and was expelled from Afghanistan in August 2014 on the orders of President
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, the first expulsion of a Western journalist from Afghanistan since the
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ruled the country.


Early life

Rosenberg was born in
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. He holds a bachelor's degree from
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in
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,
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, Canada."Matthew Rosenberg"
''The New York Times''. Retrieved October 30, 2018.


Career

Rosenberg began his reporting career at
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, and served as a foreign correspondent for the news agency in
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,
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,
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and the
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.


Awards

Rosenberg was part of a team of ''New York Times'' reporters who won a
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for national reporting in 2018 for reporting on Donald Trump's advisers and their connections to Russia. He also won two
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s, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in international reporting in 2016. He received the 2019 Gerald Leb Award for Investigative reporting for his contributions to the series "Facebook, Disinformation and Privacy".


Expulsion and espionage accusations

On November 5, 2009, ''
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'' newspaper in Pakistan printed a front-page story that accused Rosenberg of being a spy. The story claimed that Rosenberg worked for the
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and the U.S. security contractor formerly known as Blackwater. It also alleged he had ties to Israeli intelligence. ''The Wall Street Journal'' Managing Editor Robert Thomson wrote to the editor of ''The Nation'',
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, to protest the story soon after the article was published. ''The Wall Street Journal''s
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, kidnapped and killed in 2002 in Pakistan, had been labeled a Jewish spy similarly by some members of the Pakistani media before his death. Twenty-one editors from the world's major international news organizations also signed a letter of protest, calling the article's accusation "unsubstantiated" and criticizing it for compromising Rosenberg's security. In August 2014, Rosenberg was barred from leaving Afghanistan and interrogated by the country's attorney general after writing a story about how senior Afghan security officials were considering whether to stage what would, in essence, amount to a coup because of a mounting political crisis. The following day, the travel ban was abruptly reversed, and Rosenberg was ordered to leave Afghanistan within 24 hours. He departed Afghanistan on August 21 in compliance with the government order. Defending the decision to order out Rosenberg, a government statement called his story "an act of espionage," and
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, a spokesman for President Karzai, said the expulsion had been ordered at "the highest levels."


Project Veritas video

On March 9, 2022,
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released an undercover video showing Rosenberg talking about his colleagues exaggerating the events of the
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. In the video, Rosenberg said, "These fucking little dweebs who keep going on about their trauma … Shut the fuck up. They’re fucking bitches." He also said of the political left, "They were making it too big a deal" and "They were making this some organized thing that it wasn't." During a March 11, 2022 meeting, New York Times executive editor
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address the Rosenberg sting operation and the resulting tensions among Times staff. Baquet reportedly criticized Rosenberg for being careless and stupid and said Project Veritas was attempting to, "make our heads explode" by dividing the reporters.


Personal life

Rosenberg is based in
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.


References


External links


"Matthew Rosenberg"
''The New York Times''
"Letter from WSJ to Mazari"
''The Nation''
"Letter about The Nation article"
''The Nation'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Rosenberg, Matthew 1974 births Living people American male journalists Jewish American journalists American war correspondents The New York Times journalists McGill University alumni Gerald Loeb Award winners for Investigative 21st-century American Jews