David Rohde

David Rohde

David Rohde was a foreign correspondent for the New York Times. He has covered Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh as the newspaper’s South Asia Bureau co-chief. He has also reported on war in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kosovo, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, fraud in the 2000 Florida presidential election, and New York City’s criminal court system. In 2000, Rohde received an Open Society Institute individual project fellowship to write a series of articles examining ethnic and religious conflict. In 1994 and 1995, he covered the war in Bosnia for the Christian Science Monitor and was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his stories on the massacre of 7,000 Bosnian Muslims in the town of Srebrenica. Rohde is the author of the book Endgame: The Betrayal and Fall of Srebrenica. He is a graduate of Brown University. While at the Shorenstein Center, Rohde examined American efforts to introduce free media in Muslim countries as a way to counter the spread of Islamic fundamentalism.

Judy Woodruff

Why the War Crimes Conviction of Radovan Karadzic Matters

March 24, 2016 — Two former fellows, Judy Woodruff and David Rohde, discuss the conviction of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, who was recently charged for genocide and crimes against humanity by a UN tribunal for his role in atrocities during the Bosnian civil war. Watch on “PBS Newshour.” 

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Rohde and Mulvihill share two sides of a Taliban kidnapping

December 7, 2010 — Husband and wife co-authors David Rohde and Kristen Mulvihill joined the Shorenstein Center to discuss their new book, A Rope and a Prayer: A Kidnapping from Two Sides, an account of the couple’s experience during Rohde’s seven-month captivity by the Taliban. Rohde, a two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter for The New York Times

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David Rohde says security is needed for progress in Pakistan

February 5, 2010 — David Rohde, two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter for The New York Times and a former Shorenstein Fellow, spoke to the Shorenstein Center on “Pakistan’s Role in the Rise of the New Taliban.” Having escaped from the Taliban after seven months of captivity in Pakistan, Rohde argued that the central problem is the

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A Multifaceted Discussion with the Spring 2005 Shorenstein Fellows

May 3, 2005: “A Multifaceted Discussion with the Spring 2005 Shorenstein Fellows.” Topics will include the political impact of technology, globalization of American opinion, effect of mass media on politicians, countering Islamic fundamentalism through introduction of free media, diversity in the media, and the changing role of the newspaper column in the public debate. Fellows include

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Judy Woodruff

Why the War Crimes Conviction of Radovan Karadzic Matters

March 24, 2016 — Two former fellows, Judy Woodruff and David Rohde, discuss the conviction of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, who was recently charged for genocide and crimes against humanity by a UN tribunal for his role in atrocities during the Bosnian civil war. Watch on “PBS Newshour.” 

Read More »

Rohde and Mulvihill share two sides of a Taliban kidnapping

December 7, 2010 — Husband and wife co-authors David Rohde and Kristen Mulvihill joined the Shorenstein Center to discuss their new book, A Rope and a Prayer: A Kidnapping from Two Sides, an account of the couple’s experience during Rohde’s seven-month captivity by the Taliban. Rohde, a two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter for The New York Times

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David Rohde says security is needed for progress in Pakistan

February 5, 2010 — David Rohde, two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter for The New York Times and a former Shorenstein Fellow, spoke to the Shorenstein Center on “Pakistan’s Role in the Rise of the New Taliban.” Having escaped from the Taliban after seven months of captivity in Pakistan, Rohde argued that the central problem is the

Read More »

A Multifaceted Discussion with the Spring 2005 Shorenstein Fellows

May 3, 2005: “A Multifaceted Discussion with the Spring 2005 Shorenstein Fellows.” Topics will include the political impact of technology, globalization of American opinion, effect of mass media on politicians, countering Islamic fundamentalism through introduction of free media, diversity in the media, and the changing role of the newspaper column in the public debate. Fellows include

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