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Mort Rosenblum was born at an early age and printed his first newspaper at 6 — a pathetic biweekly — on
a toy press in his bedroom in Tucson, Arizona. He edited his high school paper and, at 17, left
the University of Arizona journalism department to work on the Mexico City Times and then the
Caracas Daily Journal. Thrust by crowds onto a balcony, he was inaugurated president of
Venezuela along with Raul Leone, who stayed with the job. Rosenblum decided to be a foreign
correspondent. He returned to finish his degree and work on the Arizona Daily Star. He joined
Associated Press at Newark in 1965. In 1967, at 23, AP sent him to cover mercenary wars in
Congo.
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Since then, he has written from 200 countries on subjects ranging from war to tango dancing
by the Seine. He covered the Biafra secession from Nigeria, Vietnam, the violent birth of
Bangladesh, Central American mayhem, a series of Israeli wars, the Iron Curtain collapse,
Bosnia and Kosovo, two Gulf Wars, and most other major conflicts. Based in Argentina in the
1970s, he broke the first
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stories on the Dirty War. He wrote the first African famine stories
in 1984. In 1989, he won the Overseas Press Club award and was short-listed for a Pulitzer for
the fall of Romania. He danced on Red Square the night Communism died.
From 1967 to 1979, Rosenblum ran AP bureaus in Kinshasa, Lagos, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur,
Jakarta, Buenos Aires and Paris.
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He was editor of the International Herald Tribune from
1979 to 1981 but returned to AP as the agency's Special Correspondent, based in Paris.
He won AP's top reporting award in 1990, 2000 and 2001.
Rosenblum left AP in 2004 and now writes independently.
He teaches international reporting
at the University of Arizona
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for two months each year and takes Tufts University students to
such places as Kosovo and Kashmir. He lectures as time allows.
Rosenblum has written 12 books and contributed to Foreign Affairs, Vanity Fair, the New York
Review of Books, Le Nouvel Observateur, Travel & Leisure, and Bon Appetit, among others.
He has been visiting professor at a dozen universities
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in the United States, Latin America and Europe.
His honors include a 2001 Harry Chapin Award for a series on water, a Mencken Award for African
Famine, a James Beard Award for OLIVES, and an IACP Cookbook Award for CHOCOLATE.
He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, where he was the 1980 Edward R. Morrow fellow.
His French and Spanish are fluent; his Italian is passable, and his Portuguese is hysterical.
He can say, "Don't shoot, I'm a journalist," in a lot of other languages. (Not that it helps.)
He is married to Jeannette Hermann, world class ambiance director and astrology writer. Their cat, Miranda, is hopelessly fat.
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