James Rosen serves as Chief Washington correspondent for FOX News Channel (FNC.) He joined FNC in 1999.
He has covered the State Department and traveled on many foreign trips with then Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, whom he has interviewed seven times. 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. Prior to his current beat, he served as a White House correspondent, covering the last year of the Clinton presidency and the entire first term of George W. Bush.
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. In May 2001, Rosen conducted an exclusive interview with Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist. This was Justice Rehnquist’s first interview with a television news organization, and the first time news cameras were permitted inside the chambers of any Supreme Court justice. Earlier, Rosen secured a rare interview with five-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist, “Herblock,” conducted in the Washington Post studio where the artist drew his daily cartoon from 1946 until his death in 2001.
Before joining FNC, 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; a field and control room producer at NY-1 News, also in New York; an anchor/reporter for WREX-TV (NBC) in Rockford, Illinois; and an anchor-reporter for News12/The Bronx.
Rosen’s book, "The Strong Man: John Mitchell, Nixon and Watergate," was published by Doubleday in spring 2008. His articles and essays have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s, 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.
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