Kenneth R. Rosen
kennethrrosen@proton.me | +1 413 429 6353 | +39 388 097 8647
PROFESSIONAL WORK
The New York Times
Proofing Assistant (Europe) | 2024 – Current
Multi-department editor-in-training, based between Central Europe and New York HQ, working across article mediums and desks to ensure timely proofing and fact-checking of articles after publication to nytimes.com.
Simon & Schuster
Author | 2023 – Current
Contract writer and nonfiction author for Simon & Schuster’s flagship imprint. Represented by Keith Urbahn and Matt Carlini at Javelin.
Independent Journalist, Writer
Various Outlets | 2017 – Current
Contributing Writer, WIRED; Columnist, Pacific Standard Magazine’s “Land of Metamorphosis,” Columnist, Inkstick’s “A Changing Continent”; Middle East fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy preparing reports and briefings for the U.S. State Department; freelance contributions in print and on the web as a correspondent based in Central Europe to The Washington Post, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Politico Magazine, and the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, among others. Wrote from more than two dozen countries and was translated into several languages for foreign magazines.
Coda Story
Contributing Editor (Italy) | 2022 – 23
Wrote and directed coverage for the “Fallout” series, tracking the global impact of the war in Ukraine on communities near and far. Wrote feature stories and a weekly newsletter with 5,000+ subscribers.
Newsweek
Senior Editor and Correspondent (Italy) | 2020 – 21
Oversaw weekend coverage for the magazine’s website. Selected web pieces and edited a team of four journalists who regularly appeared in the domestic magazine print edition. Shaped coverage of breaking news. Wrote headlines, decks, and feature length articles that regularly appeared both online and in print.
The New York Times
Senior News Assistant (New York) | 2017 – 20
News Assistant (New York) | 2014 – 16
General assignment stringer (New York) | 2014 – 20
Met challenging demands and deadlines as a rotating staff editor on the homepage, mobile app, Real Estate section and Neediest Cases campaigns, producing, writing, and editing web summaries, headlines, and news articles. Line-edited articles as required. Wrote breaking news stories for Web and print editions, with appearances on the Homepage and A1. Contributed feature and enterprise and breaking news stories to National, Metro, Travel, Sports, N.Y. Today, Sunday Metropolitan and rewrite. Covered cops and courts while stringing for the paper (NYPD press pass holder). Received the Deadliner Award for breaking news reporting in August 2015, and a Publisher’s Award for general excellence, among others. Produced, compiled, edited, and wrote for nytimes.com a series of newsletters which were sent to 3 million subscribers daily, cumulatively, while directing News Alerts to millions of subscribers. Crafted headlines and summary boxes for the homepage and various section fronts. Proofread and fact checked articles and modules, and published to nytimes.com. Collaborated with editors on presentations, packages, and news features for display on the homepage. Performed various tasks as assigned by newsroom support staff. Answered phones, tracked down reporters and stringers, monitored emails, wrote summaries for A2 and designed the page.
The Associated Press (AP)
Elections Stringer (New York) | 2013
Elections Stringer (Georgia) | 2012
Reported poll numbers during local elections to be distributed nationally (Savannah). Operated phones and entered polling data for the 2012 Presidential Election at the Associated Press headquarters (Manhattan).
The Juneau Empire
General Assignment Reporter (Alaska) | 2013
Developed local and state sources while covering the city and education beat for the state capital’s newspaper. Reported and broke stories for the daily edition with many regularly appearing on wire reports in the Anchorage Daily News and Fairbanks Daily News-Miner.
amNewYork Metro
General Assignment Reporter (New York) | 2013
Conducted on-the-ground reporting for the 1 million circulation daily newspaper with reporting appearing in Newsday. Supported the staff of editors and reporters as necessary through contributing reporting.
USA TODAY
College Correspondent (New York) 2012 – 13
Wrote and reported collegiate stories covering national trends and issues at institutions across the nation with appearances in the print edition for a six-month fellowship.
Narrative.ly
Writer and Social Media Manager (New York) | 2012 – 2013
Contributed thoughtful, longform stories about untold people, places and subjects for the site named one of TIMES’s “50 Best Websites of 2013.” Launched and managed social channels – Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, LinkedIn – while contributing editing and writing for the main website.
Mashable.com
Editorial Assistant (New York) | 2012
Wrote more than 500 tech and breaking news stories that individually garnered at minimum 135,500 pageviews each day during a six-month fellowship for the digital-culture website while contributing to long-term projects leading up to a site redesign and eBook release. Managed social feeds and engaged in community development operations.
The Savannah Morning News
Intern, Contract General Assignment Reporter (Georgia) | 2010-13
Metro freelancer for Accent and A1 while editing for Web and print editions nightly as an editorial assistant. Reported feature stories and contributed writing to the weekly arts and entertainment supplement, DO.
BOOKS
NORTH WINDS: Two Men, One Boat, and the War Above the 68th Parallel (Simon & Schuster, 2025)
TROUBLED: The Failed Promise of America’s Behavioral Treatment Programs (Little A, 2021)
BULLETPROOF VEST: An Object Lesson (Bloomsbury, 2020)
AWARDS, ACCOLADES
COURAGE to WRITE Award
— Winner, Writer of Note (2024)
The Scripps Howard Award for Excellence
— Finalist, Opinion Writing (2024)
Kurk Schork Memorial Award
— Winner, International Freelancer (2022)
— Finalist, International Freelancer (2019)
Richard J. Margolis Award for Nonfiction Writing
— Finalist (2021)
Baltic Writing Residency
— Finalist, Creative Nonfiction (2021, 2022)
Bayeux-Calvados Award for War Correspondents
— Winner, Written Press (2018)
— Finalist, Young Reporter (2019)
AWC Clairon Award
— Winner, Online Feature Article (2018)
ASJA COVID-19 Writing Awards
— Honorable Mention, Personal Essay (2020)
Livingston Award
— Finalist, International Reporting (2020)
— Finalist, International Reporting (2018)
Khaled Alkhateb International Memorial Award
— Winner, Written Press (2019)
Steven Sotloff Memorial 2Lives Foundation
— Security Training Scholarship (2018)
Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award
— Finalist (2019)
Deadliner Award
— Breaking News, The New York Times (2015)
Best American Essays
— Notable Essay Citation (2021)
— Notable Essay Citation (2017)
Publisher’s Award
— The New York Times (2016)
The Society of Silurians
— Medallion Award, Breaking News Coverage (2015)
FELLOWSHIPS, APPOINTMENTS, RESIDENCIES
Jan Michalski Foundation — Writer-in-Residence (2024)
Associate Fellow – King’s College London’s ICSR (2023)
Nonfiction Artist, Fellow – Massachusetts Cultural Council (2022)
Nonfiction Resident Writer – Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (2022)
Alicia Patterson Foundation Journalism Fellowship – Grantee (2021)
Executive-in-Residence – Geneva Centre for Security Policy (2021)
Journalist-in-Residence – The Washington Institute for Near East Policy (2020-21)
Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting – Grantee (Iraq 2017; Italy 2020)
Foreign & Security Policy Transatlantic Fellow – Heinrich Boll Foundation (2019)
Literary Journalist-in-Residence – Banff Centre, Canada (2019)
Calderwood Art of Nonfiction Grantee and Fellow – MacDowell (2019)
Senior Fellow – Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism (2018-19)
Robert Novak Journalism Fellow – The Fund for American Studies (2018-19)
John Jay/H.F. Guggenheim Reporting Fellow – City University of New York (2018)
Berlin Capital Program Grantee – The Fulbright Program (2017)
Visiting Research Scholar – Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism (2017-18)
Logan Nonfiction Fellow – Carey Institute for Global Good (2017)
EDUCATION
Columbia University, M.F.A, Creative Nonfiction (2015, 15+ credits toward degree)
Elected editor of the Columbia Journal, a literary and arts journal.
Savannah College of Art and Design, B.F.A., Writing (2014)
Editor-in-Chief, District, the online editorially-independent student operated and Pacemaker Award-winning student news website. Oversaw a staff of ~20 producing digital and print content 24/7, covering issues ranging from campus-wide protests to local municipal government decisions. Won more than 15 independent awards through College Media Advisers and the Society for Professional Journalists. Launched, shepherded, and promoted the launch of the college’s first literary review, “Port City Review,” a quarterly ~100 page arts and literature journal.
New York University, Hyperlocal Summer Newsroom Academy (2011)
TEACHING, LECTURING, VOLUNTEERING
MEMBERSHIPS, AFFILIATIONS
OTHER QUALIFICATIONS, ACCREDITATIONS