Andrew Rosenthal

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Andrew Rosenthal

Born	1956
Birth place	New Delhi, India
Circumstances
Occupation	journalist
Notable credit(s)	The New York Times

Andrew Rosenthal (born 1956 in New Delhi, India) is an American journalist and editorial page editor of The New York Times. Rosenthal is in charge of the paper's opinion pages, both in the newspaper and online. He oversees the editorial board, the Letters and Op-Ed departments, as well as the Editorial and Op-Ed sections of NYTimes.com. The New York Times maintains a separation between the editorial department of the paper and the news department. Rosenthal answers directly to the publisher, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr.

Rosenthal is the son of the former New York Times executive editor A.M. Rosenthal.^[1]

Andrew Rosenthal became editorial page editor on January 8, 2007. He had previously been deputy editorial page editor since September 2003. Prior to that, Rosenthal had served as assistant managing editor for news and foreign editor of The Times. He also served as national editor for six months in 2000, supervising coverage of the presidential elections and the post-election day recount, and as Washington editor. As a Washington correspondent, Rosenthal covered the Bush administration, the 1988 and 1992 presidential elections and the Persian Gulf War.

Prior to joining The Times in March 1987, Rosenthal worked at the Associated Press, where he served as Moscow bureau chief. Born in New Delhi, India, Rosenthal graduated from the University of Denver with a B.A. degree in American history in 1978.

According to his Times biography, in 1964 Rosenthal won the 3rd Grade Spelling Bee at Public School 183 in Manhattan, on the word "necessary."^[2]