1. REBECCA ROSENBERG
JOURNALIST
917.470.0699| rebecca.faye.rosenberg@gmail.com | Brooklyn, New York | rebeccafayerosenberg.com
EDUCATION
M.S., Journalism, Columbia School of Journalism, New York, NY 2007
B.A., Journalism and History, Yeshiva University, Stern College for Women, New York, NY 2005
EXPERIENCE
NEW YORK POST, New York, NY 2007 – Present
Staff Reporter, Manhattan Supreme Court (2012 – Present)
Report daily breaking news stories and long-form features that focus on criminal justice. Manage up to three reporters
covering courthouse proceedings. Develop sources, including judges, clerks, attorneys and law enforcement.
• Exclusively interviewed Harvey Weinstein from his hospital bed on the eve of his sex-assault trial
• Reported extensively on the ongoing sex-trafficking case against Ghislaine Maxwell
• Broke the story of Anthony Weiner’s adulterous correspondence that led Hillary Clinton’s top aide Huma Abedin to
announce their separation shortly before the presidential election
• Covered the trial of Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd
• Dispatched to Los Angeles for the trial of real-estate scion Robert Durst, accused of his best friend’s murder
• Covered the Charleston, South Carolina, trial of mass murderer Dylann Roof
• Broke the story of Mayor de Blasio’s plan to close Rikers Island
• Covered the trial of Nxivm cult leader Keith Raniere
• Sent to The Valley, Anguilla, to cover banker Scott Hapgood’s alleged killing of a hotel worker
• Reported exclusively on the indictment of fake heiress Anna Sorokin, who scammed banks and New York’s elite
• Covered the trial of Pedro Hernandez for the 1979 murder of Etan Patz
Staff Reporter, National Correspondent (2007 – 2012)
Dispatched to more than 30 states and five countries to cover breaking news stories. Broke world exclusives while competing
against dozens of national and international news organizations.
• Rome, Italy, to report on the sudden death of actor James Gandolfini
• Tucson, Arizona, to cover the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords
• Underhill, Vermont, to cover the homecoming of Captain Richard Phillips whose ship was hijacked by Somali pirates
• New Orleans, Louisiana, to cover the BP oil spill
• Seattle, Washington, to cover the homecoming of Amanda Knox from Italy after her initial acquittal
• Alabama, Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana to investigate a dubious charity that scammed Hurricane Katrina victims
• Texarkana, Texas, to cover the attempted Ricin-letter poisoning of President Barack Obama
• Santa Barbara, California, to cover former presidential candidate John Edwards’ affair
• Doi Saket, Thailand, to cover Madonna Badger's story of grief after losing her family in a house fire
FREELANCE 2005 – Present
• Authored the nonfiction book “At Any Cost” about the murder of Manhattan banker Shele Danishefsky, which
received a starred review from Publishers Weekly (St. Martin’s Press 2021)
• Featured journalist on CBS’s “48 Hours,” NBC’s “Dateline,” ABC’s “20/20” and “Nightline”
• Reported and wrote hundreds of stories on national and city politics, local crime, corruption, the AIDS epidemic and
TB crisis for the Cape Times, Pretoria News and Johannesburg’s The Star
• Annotated and fact-checked 270-page travel diary “Lady Trader in the Transvaal” (Parlor Press 2008)
• Reported on-site and wrote a 25,000-word feature published in Harvard University’s Transition Magazine on the
scourge of gun violence in post-apartheid South Africa
