Sebastian Rotella

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Sebastian Rotella
BornChicago, Illinois, USA
OccupationJournalist, novelist
NationalityAmerican
Period1992–present

Sebastian Rotella is an American foreign correspondent, investigative journalist, and novelist.

A Peabody Award for "What Happened at Dos Erres?", May 2013
Sebastian Rotella, Habiba Nosheen, , , Julie Snyder and Ira Glass

Biography[]

Rotella was born in Chicago, Illinois, and graduated from the University of Michigan. While at the University of Michigan, he won four Hopwood Awards from 1982 to 1984.[1] He worked for over twenty years as a reporter at the Los Angeles Times.[2][3] The Overseas Press Club awarded his investigation of the 2008 Mumbai attacks the "Best Online Investigation of an International Issue or Event 2010" award.[4] Rotella contributed as a reporter to "What Happened at Dos Erres", a documentary published as an episode of This American Life that won a Peabody Award in 2012.[5] As a ProPublica employee, he was a co-producer and the primary contributing reporter of the 2016 Frontline episode "Terror in Europe".[6]

Rotella's article "Children of the Border", published in the Los Angeles Times on April 3, 1993, served as a source for Bruce Springsteen's album The Ghost of Tom Joad.[7]

Rotella speaks Spanish, French and Italian.[citation needed] He is the older brother of Carlo Rotella.

Bibliography[]

Nonfiction works[]

  • Twilight on the Line: Underworlds and Politics at the Mexican Border (1998)
  • Pakistan and the Mumbai Attacks: The Untold Story, by Sebastian Rotella and Gary Dikeos (2013)
  • Finding Oscar: Massacre, Memory, and Justice in Guatemala, by Ana Arana, Sebastian Rotella and Kevin Stillwell (2013)

Novels[]

  • Triple Crossing (2012)
  • The Convert's Song (2014)
  • Rip Crew (2018)

References[]

  1. ^ "List of Hopwood Award Winners" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 30, 2015.
  2. ^ "ProPublica biography". Retrieved March 30, 2015.
  3. ^ "BookReporter.com biography". Retrieved March 30, 2015.
  4. ^ "Overseas Press Club of America awards page". Retrieved April 1, 2015.
  5. ^ "Peabody Awards award profile of This American Life: What Happened at Dos Erres". Retrieved April 1, 2015.
  6. ^ Terror in Europe (Frontline episode) at IMDb
  7. ^ "Liner Notes, The Ghost of Tom Joad". Retrieved April 1, 2015.

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