David S. Rohde

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David S. Rohde

David Stephenson Rohde (* 1967 ) is an American investigative journalist for the New York Times . From July 2002 to December 2004, he headed the Times' South Asia office in New Delhi . While working as a reporter for the renowned daily newspaper The Christian Science Monitor , Rohde won the Pulitzer Prize in 1996 for his coverage of the Srebrenica massacre . In 2008 he was awarded a second Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the conflicts in Afghanistan and Pakistan .

In November 2008 Rohde was kidnapped by Taliban fighters , but was able to escape in June 2009 after being held hostage for seven months.

Reporting on the Balkan conflict

Rohde's journalistic work contributed to the exposure and processing of the Srebrenica massacre, where an estimated 8,000 Bosniaks - mainly men and boys - were murdered in July 1995 . For this work he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1996. Shortly afterwards he started working for the New York Times.

In 2012 the International Press Institute (IPI) recognized him for his reports on the Balkan conflict with the title " Hero of World Press Freedom ".

Reporting on the Middle East conflict

Since joining the New York Times, Rohde has reported, among other things, on peacekeeping operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, and written articles on prisoners released from the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base .

Abduction by the Taliban

In November 2008, while researching a new book, Rohde was abducted by fighters of the radical Islamist Taliban together with a local colleague and a driver outside of Kabul. After seven months of being held hostage, Rohde and the local reporter managed to escape. Due to a collaboration between several news agencies and websites (including Wikipedia) initiated by the New York Times, which had agreed not to disclose to protect the hostages, the kidnapping was only made public after Rohde had successfully escaped.

Private

Rohde comes from Maine , where he attended the Fryeburg Academy private school . He received his Bachelor of Arts from Brown University in Providence , Rhode Island . Rohde is married.

bibliography

  • David Rohde: The last days of Srebrenica. What happened and how it became possible. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-499-22122-5

literature

Web links

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  1. ↑ David Rohde declared a hero of freedom of the press. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . January 17, 2012, accessed January 17, 2012 .
  2. ^ Keeping News of Kidnapping Off Wikipedia , New York Times, June 29, 2009
  3. ↑ Wiki self-censorship - Der Schweigepakt , Spiegel online, June 29, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Rohde, David S.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rohde, David Stephenson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1967