Brian M. Rosenthal

Brian M. Rosenthal is an investigative reporter at The New York Times, where he has worked since 2017. He has won numerous journalism awards, including the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting for exposing predatory lending in the New York City taxi industry. Prior to joining The Times, he worked as a reporter at The Seattle Times, where he was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News for coverage of a deadly landslide, and at the Houston Chronicle, where he was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in Public Service for revealing that Texas had secretly and illegally denied special education services to tens of thousands of children with disabilities. He also has won a national Emmy and the Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting. He is currently the president of the Investigative Reporters and Editors, the largest professional journalism association in the United States, which provides training in investigative techniques to thousands of journalists around the world. He grew up in Indiana.