[1] In 1990 Rosen was hired by Seth Lipsky at The Jewish Daily Forward to create an arts section of the paper's then newly editorially independent English language edition.
[2] He held the job for 10 years and describes Lipsky as an important influence.
[4] In April 2023, Rosen published The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions, a memoir about his friendship with Michael Laudor, a Yale Law School graduate with schizophrenia who killed his fiancée in 1998 during a psychotic episode.
[5] The book was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize[6] and has received high critical acclaim.
[7][8][9][5] In August 2024, Rosen was hired as a editor with The Free Press.