Jack Rosenthal

Jacob "Jack" Rosenthal (30 June 1935 – 23 August 2017) was an American journalist, editor and executive best known for his work at The New York Times. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing in 1982. Early life Jacob "Jack" Rosenthal was born to a Jewish family in Tel Aviv, Palestine in 1935 before the post World War II founding of the modern state of Israel. He grew up in Portland, Oregon. His father, Manfred Rosenthal, was a judge and later a bookkeeper. He earned his A.B. in history in 1956 from Harvard University, where he was executive editor of The Harvard Crimson.