Kenneth R. Rosen

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Kenneth R. Rosen
Born New York City, U.S.
OccupationWriter, journalist
LanguageEnglish, Italian
NationalityAmerican
Education
Years active2010-present
Notable awards Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award for war correspondents
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Kenneth R. Rosen is an American writer, journalist and war correspondent based in Central Europe. [1] He is the recipient of the Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award for war correspondents and has been twice a finalist for the Livingston Awards. [2] Rosen is the author of two nonfiction books, Bulletproof Vest and Troubled: The Failed Promise of America’s Behavioral Treatment Programs, which were published in 2020 and 2021 respectively. [3] [4] He is a contributing writer at Wired . He has also written for The New Yorker , The New York Times , The Atavist , Politico and others. [5]

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Education and career

Rosen was born in 1990, in New York City. He attended Valley Forge Military Academy and College and Savannah College of Art and Design. He received a BFA degree from Savannah College in 2014. He also attended Columbia University. In 2021, Rosen received the Media & Arts for Peace certificate from the United States Institute of Peace. [6]

Rosen started his journalism career in 2010 and worked for local dailies such as Savannah Morning News in Georgia and the Juneau Empire in Alaska. In 2014, he joined The New York Times as a news assistant where he worked for 6 years. [7] Rosen joined Newsweek as a senior editor and correspondent in 2020 and worked there for one year before dedicating himself to independent journalism and writing. Over the years, various prominent news outlets have published his works. His writings have been translated and published into Arabic, Spanish, German, and Japanese. [8]

In 2018, he received a Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award for war correspondents for feature writing for The Devil's Henchmen, an article in The Atavist about the burial rites of Islamic State fighters in Iraq. [9] [5] He was twice a finalist for the Livingston Award in international reporting in 2018 and 2020. [10] [11]

In 2020, Rosen authored Bulletproof Vest which was published by Bloomsbury Publishing. The book contemplates a bulletproof vest on a molecular level and on the world stage. Bulletproof Vest received critical reviews from major outlets including Los Angeles Review of Books and Kirkus Reviews with The Day calling it "a tense but beautifully written frontlines study of war". [3] [12] The book is a part of Object Lessons series, a book series about the hidden lives of ordinary things. [13] Wired (magazine) named Bulletproof Vest on their list of Most Fascinating Books WIRED Read in 2020. [14]

In 2021, Rosen's second book, Troubled: The Failed Promise of America’s Behavioral Treatment Programs, was published by Little A. The book examines the industry of residential treatment programs for young adult. Troubled was listed on the New Books to Watch and Editor's Choice for the month of January 2021 by The New York Times . [15] Robert Kolker reviewed it in The New York Times Book Review and called it "Not just a work of extended empathy but a public service". [4] The book also received positive reviews from Kirkus Reviews and The Times Literary Supplement . [16] [17]

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  2. ↑ AdR (14 October 2019). "RFI et Paris Match primés à Bayeux". www.strategies.fr (in French). Retrieved 7 May 2022.
  3. 1 2 Wright, Erica (16 February 2020). "Necessary Protection". lareviewofbooks.org (Los Angeles Review of Books). Retrieved 7 May 2022.
  4. 1 2 Kolker, Robert (11 January 2021). "Book Review: 'Troubled,' by Kenneth R. Rosen". www.nytimes.com (The New York Times). Retrieved 7 May 2022.
  5. 1 2 "The Devil's Henchmen". magazine.atavist.com (Atavist). June 2017. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
  6. ↑ Kefalas, Emilie (12 October 2017). "Alumni Spotlight: Kenneth R. Rosen". scaddistrict.com. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
  7. ↑ "Kenneth R. Rosen was a journalist at The New York Times from 2014 to 2020". www.nytimes.com (The New York Times). Retrieved 7 May 2022.
  8. ↑ "Experts - Kenneth R. Rosen". www.washingtoninstitute.org (The Washington Institute for Near East Policy). Retrieved 7 May 2022.
  9. ↑ France 24 (13 October 2018). "French, US media among winners of Bayeux award for war correspondents". www.france24.com (France 24). Retrieved 7 May 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  10. ↑ "2018 Livingston Award Finalists Announced". wallacehouse.umich.edu (University of Michigan). 1 May 2018. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
  11. ↑ "Announcing the 2020 Livingston Award Finalists". wallacehouse.umich.edu (University of Michigan). 28 April 2020. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
  12. ↑ "A compelling, thoughtful dive into the pursuit of being bulletproof". www.kirkusreviews.com (Kirkus Reviews). 2 March 2020. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
  13. ↑ Lenney, Dinah (17 June 2020). "Bulletproof Coffee to Bulletproof Vest: An Object Lessons Interview". themillions.com (The Millions). Retrieved 7 May 2022.
  14. ↑ Wired Staff (14 December 2020). "26 of the Best Books WIRED Read in 2020". www.wired.com (Wired). Retrieved 7 May 2022.
  15. ↑ Khatib, Joumana (23 December 2021). "13 New Books to Watch For in January". www.nytimes.com (The New York Times). Retrieved 7 May 2022.
  16. ↑ "Highly charged personal stories coalesce into a frank disclosure about the "forced redirection of wayward teenagers."". www.kirkusreviews.com (Kirkus Reviews). 13 October 2020. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
  17. ↑ Raymond, Josh (16 July 2021). "Bad treatment The problems with behaviour therapy". www.the-tls.co.uk (The Times Literary Supplement). Retrieved 7 May 2022.
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