Occupation Journalist, novelist Period 1992-present Role Correspondent | Nationality American Name Sebastian Rotella | |
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Nominations News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism – Long Form Books The Convert's Song, Twilight on the line, Finding Oscar: Massacre, Triple Crossing Similar People Tom Jennings, David Fanning, Raney Aronson‑Rath | ||
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Sebastian Rotella is an American foreign correspondent, investigative journalist, and novelist.
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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 in 1982-84. He worked for over 20 years as a reporter at the Los Angeles Times. 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. The Overseas Press Club awarded his investigation of the 2008 Mumbai attacks the "Best Online Investigation of an International Issue or Event" award 2010. The liner notes of Bruce Springsteen's album The Ghost of Tom Joad list Rotella's article "Children of the Border", published in the Los Angeles Times on April 3, 1993, as a source.
Rotella speaks Spanish, French and Italian. He is the older brother of journalist Carlo Rotella.