Claudia Rosett Death – The death of Claudia Rosett has been announced today, May 30, 2023, by the family as the family members released her obituary to the public. She passed away in her home with her loved ones around to support her. She was described as an exceptionally bright, naturally inquisitive, and doggedly determined woman. Family members and friends mourn her death as several people posted about how impactful her life was.
Who was Claudia Rosett?
Her desire for solitude at home and in her community did not prevent her from covering key historical events for the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) and penning several opinion pieces, editorials, and front-page stories. For six years, she oversaw the editorial content for the Wall Street Journal’s Asian edition in Hong Kong. Prior to that, she served as the paper’s Bureau Chief in Moscow for four years. During the 1989 protests in China’s Tiananmen Square, Claudia was the only major US print reporter present (running through Chinese Army automatic weapons fire to file her story).
She covered the Russian invasion of Chechnya and the shelling of the Moscow “White House” by Boris Yeltsin as the top reporter for her network. In her groundbreaking Russian reporting, Claudia discovered that North Korean employees paid bribes to be relocated to Siberia, where they would be subject to better treatment than in their own country.
She was also a frontrunner in exposing the global scale of leadership corruption exposed by the UN Oil-for-Food scandal and the Chinese assault on democracy in Hong Kong. Many people believed that politics were the only thing keeping Claudia Rosett from getting a Pulitzer Prize for her reporting of the United Nations Oil-for-Food scandal, despite the fact that she had already received numerous journalism accolades, including an Overseas Press Club award, for her coverage of the Tiananmen Square protests.
Claudia’s talents stemmed from her high IQ and unique upbringing. She was raised by a talented and lively mother, a classical economics father. After finishing her high school education at Rochester, New York’s Brighton High School at the age of 16, Claudia took a gap year to travel to Holland, where she immersed herself in the Dutch language and worked as a caretaker for the mentally disabled. She also earned an English degree from Yale, where she was among the first female students.
She reportedly enjoyed her time there because the male-to-female student ratio was 40 to 1. She went on to earn an M.A. in English from Columbia and an MBA from the University of Chicago. Claudia’s post-college aim was to become an assistant books editor at the WSJ, and she accomplished this by responding to criticism of a Dr. Seuss book in Dr. Seuss-style poetry.
Claudia Rosett obituary and funeral arrangements will be released by family members
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