CorrespondentJames RosenRosen joined FOX News Channel in 1999.
James Rosen is a Washington correspondent for FOX News Channel (FNC). He joined FNC in 1999.
Since January 2005, he has covered the State Department and interviewed Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice seven times since her appointment; including traveling with her to Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East for her first foreign trip as secretary of state. Rosen has reported from three-dozen countries across five continents, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Israel, the Palestinian Authority and numerous countries in Africa.
In 2006, Rosen was the first U.S. journalist to confirm that North Korea had conducted a nuclear test and anchored FOX News' overnight coverage of the death of former President Gerald R. Ford. Rosen served as White House correspondent from 2000-2005, covering the last year of the Clinton presidency and the entire first term of George W. Bush. While serving as White House correspondent, Rosen traveled with former President Clinton to Africa, Europe and the Middle East. In addition, Rosen traveled to the Middle East with President Bush and twice with Vice President Cheney.
Rosen has also secured numerous exclusives for FNC, including sit-down interviews with four justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. In July 2003, Rosen conducted an exclusive interview with Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, in which the justice discussed, for the first time, the Court's workings during the historic "Bush v. Gore" case.
Before joining FOX News, Rosen worked as a researcher to CBS News anchor and managing editor Dan Rather. Prior to CBS News, he served as an associate producer at WWOR-TV in New York; as a field and control room producer at NY-1 News, also in New York; as an anchor/reporter for WREX-TV (NBC) in Rockford, Illinois; and as an anchor-reporter for News12/The Bronx.
Rosen's articles and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, Politico.com, Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Playboy, National Review, The Weekly Standard and the American Bar Association Journal.
Born in Brooklyn, Rosen earned his bachelor's degree in political science from The Johns Hopkins University and his master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. In 2003, Rosen was named "Funniest Celebrity in Washington."
He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and son, and collects rare recordings by The Beatles. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed, "The Strong Man: John Mitchell and the Secrets of Watergate."
