Carol Rosenberg is a senior journalist, currently with the McClatchy News Service. A military-affairs reporter at the Miami Herald, since January 2002 she has reported on the operation of the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention camps, at its naval base in Cuba.[1][2] Her coverage of detention of captives at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp has been praised by her colleagues and legal scholars, and she has been invited to speak about it at the National Press Club.[3][4] She had previously covered events in the Middle East. In 2011, she received the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for her nearly decade of work on the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. Contents

Biography Edit

Carol Rosenberg was born to a Canadian mother and American father in Canada. Her family also lived in Northwood, North Dakota before moving to West Hartford, Connecticut. Her siblings include an older brother, the late Joel Rosenberg (1954-2011), who became a writer of science fiction novels. She studied and graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1981. From her freshman year, she started writing for the university newspaper, the Massachusetts Collegian, and at one time was Editor-in-Chief.[5]

Career Edit

Coverage of Guantanamo Bay Edit

Sexual harassment complaint Edit

Commander Gordon's three page letter of July 22, 2009 was published on July 24, 2009 -- page 1 page 2 , and page 3 On July 22, 2009, Rosenberg was named in a sexual harassment complaint by the US Navy Commander, Jeffrey D. Gordon, a spokesman for DOD for the Western Hemisphere, including the Guantanamo detention camp, who complained that Rosenberg had used coarse language "of an explicitly sexual nature".[17][18][19][20] When the complaint first broke, Carol Williams, a reporter at the Los Angeles Times and friend of Rosenberg, dismissed Gordon's letter, saying, "This is an attempt to discredit a journalist who has managed to transcend incredible odds to cover a story of tremendous significance to the American public." Jamie McIntyre, a former CNN Pentagon correspondent, said of Rosenberg's interactions with Gordon: "I didn't think there was any sort of sexual abuse, unless you're telling me a naval officer, a sailor, isn't used to hearing anatomical references in anger. It sounds like an overreaction on everybody's part." He said Rosenberg "was always professional in her demeanor when I was around her."[9] On August 3, 2009, the Miami Herald reported that it had concluded its internal inquiry on the matter.[21] After interviewing both reporters and other Guantanamo staff who would have been present during the incidents, the internal inquiry "did not find corroboration" for Gordon's claims.[21] Its findings acknowledged that Rosenberg had used profanity.[22] Elissa Vanaver, the Miami Herald's Vice President of Human Resources, wrote to the Pentagon to inform the authorities of the paper's conclusions reached by their inquiry.[21]

Awards Edit

Use of Google Glass at Guantanamo Edit

When Google was developing a small, standalone, computer, with built-in streaming video, called Google Glass, it chose a few thousand individuals who were invited to be beta testers.[25] Rosenberg was selected to be a beta-tester. There was confusion, initially, when she first took the glasses to Guantanamo, as to whether she should be allowed to use them there.[26] However, since August 2013, she has been allowed to use them, and she has posted a number of video blogs.

Possible early retirement Edit

On February 5, 2019, the Washington Post's media critic, Eric Wemple, reported McClatchy, the Miami Herald's parent company, had announced that conditions within the News industry would force it offer early retirement to senior staff, including Rosenberg.[27] Wemple quoted former Miami Herald managing editor, Mark Seibel “She’s the expert. There’s no one in the United States that knows more about Gitmo than Carol Rosenberg... I assigned Carol to Gitmo and jokingly told her not to come back until after the executions had happened.”[27] Wemple quoted Charlie Savage, of The New York Times[27]: “Her work on Guantanamo is an area where The Miami Herald and McClatchy have regularly distinguished themselves with reporting of national and international significance that cannot be found anywhere else. Guantanamo was one of the costliest and most disputed national-security legal-policy experiments by the Bush administration after 9/11 — and it’s not over even though the Bush and Obama administrations eventually got rid of most of the detainees Bush brought there.”[27] In its reporting the Miami New Times pointed out that McClatchy's CEO Craig Forman received a bonus of $900,000 on top of his base salary of $823,846 and $552,684 in stock awards, in 2017, writing "while the news is soul-numbing for reporters, life is still apparently pretty good for Forman and the rest of the newspaper chain's corporate board."[28]

Hired by the New York Times Edit

On February 20, 2019, the Pulitzer Center announced that The New York Times would be hiring Rosenberg.[29] The Pullitzer Center had been covering part of Rosenberg's salary since 2018. After McClatchy's buyout offer the Pullitzer Center helped her find a new position. They will provide support to The New York Times to help support her position because they consider her ongoing coverage of Guantanamo to be important.

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