Rosa Goldensohn has joined Crain’s New York as a reporter covering the intersection of politics, government and business.
She comes from DNAinfo, where she covered neighborhoods in Manhattan and Brooklyn as well as city jails and affordable housing.
Her work has also appeared in City Limits, VICE and elsewhere. Her six-month investigation in the Nation, “The State Where Giving Birth Can Be Criminal,” backed by the Journalism Center on Children & Families and the Nation Institute’s Investigative Fund, was a finalist for awards from Investigative Reporters & Editors and the Society of Professional Journalists.
At CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism, she received the Dennis Duggan Prize for coverage of “ordinary or disenfranchised New Yorkers” and the Sidney Hillman Foundation Award for Social Justice Reporting.
She was raised in New Jersey and now lives in Brooklyn.
