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Jack Rosenthal Biography

Jack Rosenthal, president of The New York Times Company Foundation, has been a reporter, editor and executive at The New York Times since 1969. He has headed the Foundation since 2000. It makes grants to advance journalism, education, culture, service and the environment. Its other functions include administering The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund and The Times's College Scholarship Program.

He was born in Tel-Aviv, grew up in Portland, Oregon and went to Harvard, where he was an executive of The Harvard Crimson. He worked as a reporter and editor at The Oregonian in Portland and served in the U.S. Army. In 1961, he went to Washington and served as special assistant to Attorneys General Robert Kennedy and Nicholas deB. Katzenbach. In 1966, the Washington press corps voted him the outstanding press officer in the government. In 1968, he was the principal editor of the presidential commission report on urban riots (the Kerner Report).

In 1982, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished editorial writing at The Times, whose editorial board he joined in 1977. He served as Editorial Page Editor (1986-1993) and Magazine Editor (1993-2000).

In 2002, in response to his work at the Foundation for 9/11 victims, the Human Resources Council of New York gave him its Leadership Award and the Children’s Aid Society awarded him the Charles Loring Brace Medal for Distinguished Service. In 2007, he received the Merage Foundation National Leadership Award for distinguished service by an immigrant to America.

He lives in New York City with his wife, Holly Russell, a metal sculptor.

Address: The New York Times Company Foundation, 230 West 41st Street, New York, NY 10036, 212-556-7740.