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Obituary: Morris W. Rosenberg

Posted on September 20, 2007 by Staff

Morris W. Rosenberg, 87, veteran foreign correspondent and Bureau Chief for the Associated Press, died of prostate cancer at his home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina on September 15, 2007.

Rosenberg graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a degree in journalism in 1940, and was elected to the NC Journalism Hall of Fame in 1989.
During World War II, he served with the US Office of War Information in New York and with the Allied Forces Psychological Warfare Branch in Algeria, Italy, Albania, and Yugoslavia.

In 1950, in Caracas, Venezuela, he reorganized an English language publication into a daily newspaper and became its first editor-in-chief.  He also served as AP correspondent in Venezuela.

In 1958, he moved to New York City to become the first director of East-West Exchanges at the Institute of International Education.  He later joined the AP in New York as World Services news editor.

In 1961, Rosenberg was assigned to Mexico City as AP Chief of Bureau for Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean area.

In 1966, the AP named him Chief of Bureau in Paris, France, including coverage of Francophone Africa.

He returned to Mexico in 1977 as Director General for AP operations in Latin America.
Rosenberg became Chief of World Services operations in the Washington, DC, bureau of AP in 1979.

After retiring from the AP in 1988, he served as a media consultant for news agencies and journalistic groups in all of the newly liberated countries of Eastern Europe, following the breakup of the Soviet Union.  He also helped direct the training of journalists in Central America.

In 2004, he retired to Chapel Hill, where he conducted seminars on foreign correspondence at the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

He was a member of the Cosmos Club in Washington, DC, and a former member of the Overseas Press Club and National Press Club.  The French government named him Chevalier of the Legion of Honor.

He is survived by his wife of 61 years, two daughters, a son-in-law, two grandchildren, a brother, two sisters-in-law, nieces, nephews, and cousins.

Memorial contributions may be made to UNC Hospice; P. O. Box 1077; Pittsboro, NC 27312.

Arrangements are by Cremation Society of the Carolinas.
Online condolences may be made at www.cremnc.com.

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