| Herry M. Rosenfeld | |
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| Born | ca. 1928 Berlin, Germany |
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| Occupation | newspaper editor |
| Website http://timesunion.com/opinion/localcolumns/rosenfeld.asp |
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Harry M. Berlin is the capital city and one of sixteen states of Germany. Editing Language, Images or Sound through correction condensation organization and other modifications in various media Rosenfeld (born circa 1928) is an American newspaper editor, who was the editor in charge of local news at The Washington Post during the Watergate scandal who oversaw the newspaper's coverage of Watergate and resisted efforts by the paper's national reporters to take over the story. Circa (often abbreviated c, ca, ca or cca and sometimes Italicized to show it is Latin) means "about" Year 1928 ( MCMXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. A newspaper is a written Publication containing News, information and Advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called Newsprint. Editing Language, Images or Sound through correction condensation organization and other modifications in various media The Washington Post is the largest and most circulated Newspaper in Washington D The Watergate scandals were a series of Political scandals during the presidency of Richard Nixon that resulted in the Indictment of several of Nixon's Though Post editor-in-chief Benjamin C. Bradlee gets most of the credit, managing editor Howard Simons and Rosenfeld worked most closely with reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein on developing the story. Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee (born August 26, 1921) is the vice president of The Washington Post. Howard Simons ( June 3, 1929 - June 13, 1989) was the managing editor of the Washington Post at the time of the Watergate scandal Robert "Bob" Upshur Woodward (born March 26, 1943) is an assistant managing editor of The Washington Post. Carl Bernstein (pronounced BERN-steen ˈbɜrnstiːn (born February 14, 1944) is an American journalist who as a reporter for The
Rosenfeld was born in Berlin but his family fled Nazi Germany when he was ten. Berlin is the capital city and one of sixteen states of Germany. Nazism, which was a short name for National Socialism (Nationalsozialismus refers primarily to the Ideology and practices of the National Socialist German Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. The family settled in The Bronx, New York City and Rosenfeld learned to speak English devoid of an accent. The City of New York After graduating from Syracuse University, Rosenfeld was hired as an editor at New York Herald-Tribune When it ceased publication circa 1967, Rosenfeld went to the Post. Syracuse University (SU is a private research university located in Syracuse, New York. The New York Herald Tribune was a daily newspaper created in 1924 when the New York Tribune acquired the New York Herald.
Rosenfeld originally served as night foreign editor. When he moved to the metropolitan desk, he hired Woodward, who had just been discharged from the United States Navy and had no experience in journalism, on a three-week trial in August 1970. When the trial was up, Woodward had written seventeen stories, not one of which was deemed publishable. Rosenfeld told Woodward to get some experience elsewhere and come back in a year. Woodward frequently scooped the Post at his new paper, the Montgomery County Sentinel, in the Washington suburbs, and kept phoning Rosenfeld for a job. Montgomery County of the US state of Maryland is situated just north of Washington D Rosenfeld hired him, starting September 15, 1971. Events 668 - Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II is assassinated in his bath at Syracuse Italy. Year 1971 ( MCMLXXI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1971 Gregorian calendar.
Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham in her memoirs describes him as "an old-style, tough, picturesque editor, and another real hero of Watergate for us. Katharine Meyer Graham ( June 16, 1917 &ndash July 17, 2001) was an American publisher From the outset, he thought of the story as a very big local one, seeing it as something on which the Post's local staff could distinguish itself. He controlled the story before it regularly made page one of the paper, keeping it going on the front page of the metro section. " Rosenfeld's control produced, in his words, "the longest-running newspaper stories with the least amount of errors that I have ever experienced or will ever experience. "
Woodward and Bernstein in their account of the Watergate investigation, All the President's Men, wrote Rosenfeld was "like a football coach. He prods his players . . . pleading, yelling, cajoling. "
In 1978, Rosenfeld moved to Albany, New York and became editor of the Times Union and the now-defunct Knickerbocker News. Albany is the Capital of the State of New York and the County seat of Albany County. He retired in 1996, becoming the Times Union's editor-at-large. Rosenfeld writes a weekly column for that paper which is published by other papers in the Hearst chain. He resides in Albany with his wife. [1]
In the 1976 film All the President's Men, Rosenfeld was played by Jack Warden. The year 1976 in film involved some significant events Events March 22 - Filming begins on George Lucas ' All the President's Men is a 1976 film based on the 1974 non-fiction book by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the two journalists investigating Jack Warden ( September 18 1920 – July 19, 2006) was an Emmy Award -winning Academy Award -nominated American