James Rosen

James Martin Rosen is an American journalist and former Pentagon correspondent for McClatchy. He has covered politics since the 1980s, and has received two National Press Club awards for his reporting in Washington D.C. In 2021 he received the top honor for column writing from the Society of Professional Journalists. His columns have appeared in USA Today, the Detroit Free Press, Newsday, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Las Vegas Sun, Hartford Courant, and many other outlets. In 2017 and 2018, he received awards from the Military Reporters and Editors Association for his coverage of the Pentagon. Background James Rosen is a native of the Detroit area. He grew up in Oak Park, Michigan. He attended the University of California at Berkeley for his undergraduate degrees in Political Science and Russian Language, and later received his master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Positions Rosen served as a Moscow correspondent for UPI, and upon his return to the U.S., he was a reporter for the New York Daily News and an assistant metro editor for the Raleigh News & Observer. Rosen's 1991 front-page New York Daily News article about Donald Trump having stopped a mugging was circulated and commented upon during Donald Trump's 2016 US Presidential campaign. Rosen later became a news strategist, a congressional reporter for McClatchy Newspapers and a frequent contributor to Tribune News Service, before becoming a Pentagon correspondent for McClatchy and Washington correspondent for the Miami Herald. He has also served as a political expert for C-SPAN, NPR, and CBS. Reporting During his time as a UPI reporter Rosen covered the collapse of Soviet rule. Later, he began to cover American politics, including the interactions and friction between Senator Jesse Helms and President Bill Clinton. His 1994 article quoting Helms saying Clinton would need a bodyguard if he came to North Carolina prompted congressional hearings and a Secret Service investigation. Rosen's 1996 article about Rep. Fred Heineman claiming he was middle class prompted ridicule in Congress with posters displayed in the House of Representatives. The comment was used in TV political ads against Heineman and were attributed to causing his re-election defeat.