Claudia Rosett

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Claudia Rosett (May 29, 1955 – May 27, 2023) was an American author and journalist. An editorial board member of

London Center for Policy Research, and served as an adjunct fellow at the Hudson Institute
.

Background

Rosett earned a BA in

MBA at the University of Chicago in 1981.[1]

Rosett joined

OpinionJournal.com
from July 2000 to December 2005.

In 1990, she received an

Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.[2] In 1994 she broke the full story of North Korean labor camps in the Russian Far East, reporting from the camps.[1] She also broke the U.N.'s Oil for Food
scandal; the largest public fraud in history.

Rosett, also contributed to National Review, The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, USA Today, Commentary, The New Republic and The Weekly Standard, among others.[1]

Rosett died on May 27, 2023, at the age of 67.[3]

On the United Nations

Rosett was a frequent critic of corruption in the United Nations. In 2004 and 2005, she wrote a series of articles exposing the corruption behind the U.N.'s Oil-for-Food program.[4] As Michael Barone, a senior writer at U.S. News & World Report, explained:[5]

The U.N. Oil for Food program, we learn from the reporting of Claudia Rosett in The Wall Street Journal, was a rip-off on the order of $21 billion—with money intended for hungry Iraqis going instead to Saddam Hussein and his henchmen, to bribed French and Russian businesses and, evidently, to the U.N.'s own man in charge, Benon Sevan. For this work, she was honored with the 2005 Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Opinion Journalism[6] and a "Mightier Pen" award from the Center for Security Policy.[7]

In June and July 2006, Rosett covered the trial of Tongsun Park via a blog at the National Review's website.

References

  1. ^ a b c Rosett's biography at the FDD website
  2. ^ Rosett's biography (not up to date) at The Wall Street Journal website
  3. ^ Smith, Harrison (30 May 2023). "Claudia Rosett, who reported from Tiananmen Square, dies at 67". The Washington Post. Retrieved 31 May 2023.
  4. ISBN 9780786726943
    . Retrieved August 24, 2010.
  5. ^ "Of What Use is the United Nations?" Archived 2011-06-11 at the Wayback Machine, syndicated column by Michael Barone, January 10, 2005
  6. ^ Eric Breindel Journalism Awards: Past Winners Archived April 1, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ "Honoring Claudia Rosett's Mighty Pen", by Gary Shapiro, The New York Sun, December 15, 2005

External links

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