Mort Rosenblum / Editor /

Mort Rosenblum

Mort Rosenblum

Mort Rosenblum reported for the Associated Press from 1965 to 2004 on nearly every major international conflict from Biafra and Vietnam to the war in Iraq. He was editor of the International Herald Tribune from 1979 to 1981 and then returned to AP as Special Correspondent to cover stories ranging from grand geopolitics to tangoing by the Seine. Rosenblum directed AP bureaus in the Congo, Nigeria, Southeast Asia, Argentina, and France. He now reports independently, writes books, and teaches.

His 12th book, Escaping Plato’s Cave: How America’s Blindness to the Rest of the World Threatens our Survival, was published in October, 2007, after Chocolate: A Bittersweet Saga of Dark and Light. Others include Coups and Earthquakes: Reporting the World for America; Mission to Civilize: The French Way; Squandering Eden: Africa at the Edge; and Who Stole the News? Olives: The Life and Lore of a Noble Fruit won a James Beard Award. He has written for Foreign Affairs, the New York Review of Books, and Vanity Fair.

Rosenblum is a visiting professor at the University of Arizona and, with Gary Knight, conducts international workshops for Exposure, a program of the Institute for Global Leadership at Tufts University. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Link: MortRosenblum.net

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