Dave Rosenthal
Dave Rosenthal is Managing Editor of Great Lakes Today, a collaboration of public media stations that is led by WBFO, ideastream in Cleveland in WXXI in Rochester, and includes other stations in the region.
Dave comes to Buffalo from Baltimore, where he was the investigations/enterprise editor for The Sun. He led projects that won a number of honors, including the Clark Mollenhoff Award for Excellence in Investigative Reporting, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism's Paul Tobenkin Memorial Award and the Investigative Reporters & Editors’ breaking news award. The newsroom’s work on the death of Freddie Gray was recognized by The American Society of News Editors, the Online News Association and the National Headliners Awards, in addition to being named a finalist for a 2016 Pulitzer Prize.
He began his journalism career as a reporter for the Roanoke Times and World-News, where he covered local government, the Virginia General Assembly and business. In Roanoke and Baltimore, he has reported on a wide range of topics and people, including a zoo architect in Seattle, the recovery of a Civil War ironclad off the Atlantic coast and the emerging market economy in the Soviet Union.
A native of New Britain, Conn., Dave has degrees from Wesleyan University and Boston University School of Law.
In his spare time, he can be found biking the roads and trails around Buffalo – and cheering on various sports teams, including the UConn Huskies.
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Finally, some good news for towns that been flooded for weeks by high waters in Lake Ontario. The lake-wide average water level has remained at 75.85 m...
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Updated Friday, May 26, at 4:45 p.m. The region braced for a long stretch of rain and showers -- weather that could contribute to more flooding. The...
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President Trump's budget priorities have put funding for the Great Lakes in danger. His 2018 budget outline eliminated $300 million in annual funding...
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A new report sums up the crazy winter that brought unusually warm temperatures to the Great Lakes region -- as well as some brutal Lake Effect...
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Add this to the unexpected news coming out of the Great Lakes region: a huge fireball tearing across the midwest skies early Monday, headed for Lake...
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Areas along the Great Lakes are bracing for big lake effect snows this weekend -- and there probably will be more this winter. The reason: Water...
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New heat maps from NOAA show the startling change in water temperatures across the Great Lakes this year. Back in 2014, the heat map shows a bluish...
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To mark New York's Invasive Species Awareness Week, we asked Andrea Locke of Buffalo State to answer some questions on the issue. As Coordinator of the...
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When the Cuyahoga River caught fire on June 22, 1969, it badly scarred Cleveland’s image. Some other polluted rivers were burning in American cities,...