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Anne Farris Rosen
Born
Anne Wood Herbers

March 7, 1956 (age 69)
Jackson, Mississippi, United States
Occupation(s)Journalist, Author, and Lecturer
Notable workDeep South Dispatch: Memoirs of a Civil Rights Journalist
Spouse(s)Thomas Chad Farris (m. 1979, died 1992), Perry Mark Rosen (m. 2008)
FatherJohn Herbers

Anne Farris Rosen (born Anne Wood Herbers; March 7, 1956) is an American journalist, author, and lecturer at the University of Maryland, College Park.[1]

Early Life

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Rosen was born to journalist John Herbers and Mary Elizabeth “Betty” Herbers (née Wood) on March 7, 1956 in Jackson, Mississippi.[2] Throughout her early life, her father took her with him on reporting assignments, including major civil rights and war protests and White House presidential trips.[2] Rosen received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Rhodes College (then Southwestern at Memphis) in Memphis, Tennessee in 1978,[3] followed by a Master of Arts degree in Public and Urban Affairs from Saint Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri.[4]"Author - Anne Farris". The Globalist.</ref>

Career

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Rosen began her career in 1979 as a reporter in North Carolina for the Reidsville Review and then the Greensboro Daily News. Throughout the 1980s, Rosen worked for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Kansas City Star, the Arkansas Gazette (now the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette),[5] and Newhouse News Service in Washington, D.C. Rosen worked as a stringer for The New York Times from 1985 to 1991 and as a reporter for the Times’s Arkansas bureau until 1994. From 1996 until 2000, Rosen was a Special Correspondent for the National Desk of The Washington Post. [6]

Rosen’s first work in documentary films was as an off-camera reporter for the English Channel 4 documentary “The Clintons: A Marriage of Power” in 1998.[4] She additionally worked on the documentaries “Kosovo: The Reckoning - How the War Was Spun” (BBC Current Affairs, 1999), “Endgame in Ireland” (Brian Lapping Associates for BBC, 2001), “The American Taliban” (Mentorn Barraclough Carey for BBC, 2002), “Lords of the Spin” (Wilton Films, London, 2005),[7] and “Fighting for Afghanistan” (BBC Persian Television, 2010)."Documentaries". annefarrisrosen.com.</ref>

From 2002 to 2007, Rosen worked as Washington Correspondent for the Rockefeller Institute of Government, covering the intersection of government and religion. From 2007 to 2011, Rosen worked for the Pew Research Center Forum on Religion & Public Life, covering the role of religion in the United States census,[8] the 2008 Presidential campaigns of John McCain and Barack Obama,[9] and the influence of religious groups in healthcare reform.[10] Her articles about government, politics and social issues have appeared in Congressional Quarterly Researcher, Center for Public Integrity,[11] Carnegie Reporter,[12] and American Journalism Review. She is co-author of two books: "Deep South Dispatch: Memoir of a Civil Rights Journalist"[13] and an autobiography of Stanley H. Kaplan. [14] Rosen has taught at the University of Maryland, College Park Philip Merrill College of Journalism since 2013.[1]

Personal Life

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Rosen was married to Thomas Chad Farris (December 19, 1954 – November 4, 1992) from 1979[15] until his death in 1992. [16] Rosen married Perry Mark Rosen (December 11, 1955) in 2008. Rosen has two children and two stepchildren. She currently lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband, Perry Rosen.

References

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  1. ^ a b "Anne Farris Rosen | Philip Merrill College of Journalism". merrill.umd.edu.
  2. ^ a b Herbers, John; Rosen, Anne Farris (2018). Deep South dispatch: memoir of a civil rights journalist. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. p. VIII. ISBN 978-1496816740.
  3. ^ "Award-Winning Journalist and Rhodes Alumna Anne Farris Rosen Talks About Career and New Book | Rhodes News". news.rhodes.edu.
  4. ^ a b "The Faith-Based Initiative Two Years Later: Examining its Potential, Progress and Problems". Pew Research Center. 5 March 2003.
  5. ^ Looking back at the Arkansas gazette: an oral history. Fayetteville, AK: University of Arkansas Press. 2009. pp. xviii, 38–39, 96, 122, 127–130, 261, 265, 268. ISBN 9781557288998.
  6. ^ "Anne Farris". The Globalist.
  7. ^ "Lords of the Spin (TV Series 2004– ) - Full cast & crew - IMDb". IMDB.
  8. ^ Rosen, Anne (26 January 2010). "A Brief History of Religion and the U.S. Census". Pew Research Center.
  9. ^ Farris, Anne; O'Keefe, Mark (4 November 2008). "Religion and Politics '08: Barack Obama". Pew Research Center.
  10. ^ Rosen, Anne; Clement, Scott (8 October 2009). "Religious Groups Weigh In on Health Care Reform". Pew Research Center.
  11. ^ "One House seat in Kentucky embodies how outside groups dominate politics -- with money". HuffPost. 18 October 2011.
  12. ^ Farris, Anne (2 December 2005). "The Growing "Global Interior" of the United States". The Globalist.
  13. ^ "Deep South Dispatch: Memoir of a Civil Rights Journalist". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.
  14. ^ Rosenberg, Merri (November 28, 2001). "BULLETIN BOARD; Test Prep Memoir". The New York Times.
  15. ^ "Anne W. Herbers Wed To Thomas Chad Farris". The New York Times. Vol. CXXVIII, no. 44, 314. August 19, 1979. p. 59. Retrieved 29 June 2025.
  16. ^ "T. Chad Farris, 37, A Lawyer for Unions". The New York Times. Vol. CXLII, no. 49, 142. November 6, 1992. p. 38. Retrieved 29 June 2025.