David S. Rohde

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David S. Rohde
Rohde at the 2018 Pulitzer Prizes
Born
David Stephenson Rohde

(1967-08-07) August 7, 1967 (age 57)
Maine, United States
EducationBrown University (B.A., 1990)
OccupationInvestigative journalist
Notable credit(s)1996 Pulitzer Prize winner
2010 Michael Kelly Award winner
SpouseKristen Mulvihill

David Stephenson Rohde (born August 7, 1967) is an American author and investigative journalist, he is the former online news director for The New Yorker and now serves as Senior Executive Editor, National Security, for NBC News.[1] While a reporter for The Christian Science Monitor, he won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1996 for his coverage of the Srebrenica massacre. From 2002 until 2005, he was co-chief of The New York Times' South Asia bureau, based in New Delhi, India. He later contributed to the newspaper's team coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan that received the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting and was a finalist in his own right in the category in 2010.[2][3] He is also a global affairs analyst for CNN.[4]

While in Afghanistan, Rohde was kidnapped by members of the Taliban in November 2008, but managed to escape in June 2009 after seven months in captivity. While he was in captivity, The New York Times collaborated with a number of media outlets, including al-Jazeera[5] and Wikipedia,[6][7] to remove news of the kidnapping from the public eye. This was done to decrease his value as a hostage and bargaining chip, and so increase his chances of eventual survival.

  1. ^ Johnson, Ted (April 25, 2023). "David Rohde To Join NBC News From The New Yorker". Deadline.com. Retrieved April 25, 2023.
  2. ^ "Times Reporter Escapes Taliban After 7 Months". The New York Times. June 20, 2009. Retrieved June 29, 2009.
  3. ^ Finalist: David Rohde of The New York Times pulitzer.org
  4. ^ "CNN Transcripts". CNN. January 24, 2017. Retrieved March 4, 2017.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference kurtz was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ Pérez-Peña, Richard (June 28, 2009). "Keeping News of Kidnapping Off Wikipedia". The New York Times. Retrieved June 29, 2009.
  7. ^ Reagle, Joseph (August 27, 2010). Good Faith Collaboration. History and Foundations of Information Science. The MIT Press. pp. 89–90. ISBN 9780262014472. Retrieved April 11, 2020. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)