Resume

1. REBECCA ROSENBERG
JOURNALIST/BOOK AUTHOR
rebecca.faye.rosenberg@gmail.com | Brooklyn, New York | rebeccafayerosenberg.com
C A R E E R S U M M A R Y
More than a decade of experience delivering agenda-setting global news stories and features for the New York Post
and other publications. Based for the last seven years in one of America’s highest-profile courthouses, breaking
stories that are frequently picked up by international outlets and have inspired "Law and Order" episodes. A proven
record of achievement, reporting from four continents on crime, corruption, politics and entertainment.
E D U C A T I O N
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
S K I L L S / P R O G R A M S
Research/Writing – Editing – Slack – Airtable – Microsoft Office – Public Access to Court Electronic Records
(PACER) – NYS Courts Electronic Filing (NYSCEF) – Supreme Court Records On-Line Library (SCROLL)
P R O F E S S I O N A L E X P E R I E N C E
NEW YORK POST, New York, NY 2007 – Present
Staff Reporter, Manhattan Supreme Court (2012 – Present)
Report daily 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. Dispatched to other
states to cover high-profile criminal proceedings.
• Landed exclusive interview with Harvey Weinstein on the eve of his sex-assault trial
• Covered Weinstein’s trial gavel-to-gavel
• Sent to Los Angeles for the trial of real-estate scion Robert Durst, accused of his friend’s 2000 murder
• Dispatched to The Valley, Anguilla, to cover banker Scott Hapgood’s alleged killing of a hotel worker
• Broke the story of Mayor de Blasio’s plan to close Rikers Island
• Covered the Charleston, South Carolina, trial of racist mass murderer Dylann Roof
• 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
• Coverage of fake heiress Anna Sorokin, who posed as a German noble to scam banks and New York’s elite,
leading to her indictment and trial
• Reported exclusively on defendant Carlos Montero’s pretrial incarceration, the longest in New York City
history
• Covered the trial of Rysheim Smith for the murder of 6-year-old Zymere Perkins, in a case that highlighted the
failures of the Administration for Children’s Services
• Reported on the trial of Pedro Hernandez for the 1979 murder of Etan Patz

2. REBECCA ROSENBERG
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
• Doi Saket, Thailand, to cover Madonna Badger's story of grief after losing her family in a house fire
• 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
FREELANCE 2005 – Present
• Authored the nonfiction book “At Any Cost” about the slaying of Manhattan banker Shele Danishefsky, to be
published by St. Martin’s Press in 2021
• Featured journalist on CBS’s “48 Hours,” NBC’s “Dateline,” ABC’s “20/20” and “Nightline”
• Reported on-site and published a feature in Harvard University’s Transition Magazine on the scourge of gun
violence in post-apartheid South Africa
• 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” (published in America
and South Africa in 2008) for Professor Carole G. Silver, Chair, Department of English, Yeshiva University