9/11 Security and Liberty Fellowships, 2004-2005

Seth Rosenfeld
Reporter
The San Francisco Chronicle

Seth Rosenfeld is a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle who specializes in legal affairs and investigative reporting. He has been a journalist for more than 25 years. Rosenfeld earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from UC Berkeley. Rosenfeld won a 1992 George Polk Award for revealing Dow Corning Corporation's cover-up of defects in silicone gel breast implants. He has won several awards for exposing police misconduct. Rosenfeld’s story, “The Campus Files,” (June 2002) revealed unlawful cold war FBI activities at the University of California, including the bureau’s campaign against UC President Clark Kerr. The “Campus Files” story won several national awards, including the Investigative Reporters and Editors' Freedom of Information Award, the Joseph L. Brechner Freedom of Information Award from the University of Florida, and a special citation from Harvard University’s Goldsmith Award for Investigative Reporting. . Rosenfeld has taught news reporting and writing at San Francisco State University’s Department of Journalism and has given presentations on using the FOIA to IRE and other groups.

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