20 Facts About Carol Rosenberg

Carol Rosenberg is a senior journalist at The New York Times.

Carol Rosenberg was born to a Canadian mother and American father in Canada.

Carol Rosenberg's family lived in Northwood, North Dakota before moving to West Hartford, Connecticut.

Carol Rosenberg's siblings include an older brother, the late Joel Rosenberg, who became a writer of science fiction novels.

Carol Rosenberg studied and graduated in 1981 from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

In 1990, Carol Rosenberg was hired as a foreign correspondent by the Miami Herald; she covered many international stories for them, including in war zones.

Carol Rosenberg went to the 1991 Gulf War in the Middle East and conducted other extensive reporting from the area.

Carol Rosenberg regularly worked to report activities that the government was trying to keep hidden.

Since January 2002, Carol Rosenberg has covered the Guantanamo Bay detention camp as her main field, together with associated United States Supreme Court cases affecting the detainees and camp operations.

Carol Rosenberg has covered in detail the conditions at the camps, the tribunals and, in 2006, the reported suicides of prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.

Carol Rosenberg explored the lives of prisoners, writing about one so afraid to return to his native Tajikistan that he asked to stay at the prison in Cuba.

Carol Rosenberg has described conditions, including the refrigeration of bottled water at the camp, where it is stored in a two-ton shipping refrigerator meant for the dead.

Carol Rosenberg has described tensions among the military, for example, one general verbally attacking another general as "abusive, bullying, unprofessional" in a dispute over trial tactics at the war court.

Carol Rosenberg presented Rosenberg with the flag, which he had ordered prepared specifically to honor her diligence in reporting.

On January 11,2012, Carol Rosenberg was interviewed by Public Radio International on the tenth anniversary of the arrival of the first twenty Guantanamo captives.

On June 18,2013, Carol Rosenberg republished a list of the dispositions of the Guantanamo captives, which was sent to her in response to a Freedom of Information Act request.

The list Carol Rosenberg was given contained 240 names and was dated January 22,2010.

In 2011, Rosenberg won the Robert F Kennedy Journalism Award for her reporting from Guantanamo Bay.

In 2014, Carol Rosenberg was honored by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.

On March 20,2015, Carol Rosenberg was listed as the 2015 awardee of the Scripps Howard Foundation's Edward Willis Scripps Award for distinguished service to the First Amendment.