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Date of Birth
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02-May-1922
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Place of Birth
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Sault Ste. Marie
(Ontario, Algoma District, Canada)
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Nationality
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United States of America, Canada
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Also know as
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Abraham Michael "A.M." Rosenthal, A.M. Rosenthal
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Profession
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Writer, Journalist, Editor, Columnist
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Abraham Michael "A.M." Rosenthal, born in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada, was a New York Times executive editor and columnist and New York Daily News columnist. He joined the New York Times in 1943 and remained there for 56 years, to 1999. Rosenthal won a Pulitzer Prize in 1960 for international reporting. As an editor at the newspaper, Rosenthal oversaw the coverage of a number of major news stories including the Vietnam war, the Pentagon Papers, and the Watergate scandal. Together with Catherine A. Fitzpatrick, he was the first westerner to visit a Soviet GULAG camp in 1988.
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