A graduate of Oberlin College[6] and the Columbia School of Journalism,[7] Rosenstiel began his career as a reporter for muckraking political columnist Jack Anderson.
[9] He left the Times in 1995 to join Newsweek Magazine, where he served as chief congressional correspondent and covered the Gingrich revolution.
[15] During those years, Rosenstiel was co-author of CCJ's "Traveling Curriculum,"[16] a mid-career education program that trained more than 6,000 U.S. journalists.
In January 2013, Rosenstiel became executive director of the American Press Institute, which was founded in 1946 to train newspaper professionals.
Rosenstiel reimagined the institute from conducting seminars to being an applied think tank looking ahead at the challenges facing the news industry.
API began to conduct original research in a collaboration with AP NORC called The Media Insight Project.
Elements has been translated into more than two dozen languages and is the winner of the Goldsmith Book Prize from Harvard University,[18] the Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award for research in journalism and the Bart Richards Award for Media Criticism from Pennsylvania State University.
In Blur, Rosenstiel and Kovach break down journalism and the media into four types:[25] In all but case 1, journalistic objectivity is usually violated.