Matthew J. Rose

Matthew Rose is an editorial director for New York Times Opinion, where as part of the section’s senior leadership team he oversees guest essays and video. Previously, he was a decorated editor and reporter at The Wall Street Journal based in London, Washington D.C., and New York. From 2015 to 2023, he was the Journal’s chief enterprise editor, where he helped oversee the newsroom’s most ambitious coverage, from daily news features to projects that won Pulitzer, Polk and Loeb awards. Notable examples include coverage of Donald Trump’s payoffs to Stormy Daniels and the Facebook Files series that revealed how much the platform knew about the harm it causes.

Previously, Rose was an editor in Washington, including as deputy bureau chief, where he helped lead coverage of some of the biggest stories from that period, including the financial crisis, the Obama presidency and wars in Syria and Afghanistan. He was also an editor on the Page One desk, a media reporter in New York and a technology reporter in London. Born in London, he was educated at Oxford University and Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, and currently teaches at the Columbia University School of Journalism.