Steve Rosenberg Biography
Steve Rosenberg is a British Television personality working as a Russia Editor for BBC News since 10 March 2022. He is also a Moscow correspondent for the BBC.
Steve Rosenberg Age
How old is Steve Rosenberg? Steve is 55 years old as of 2023. He was born on April 5, 1968, in Epping, United Kingdom.
Steve Rosenberg Height
He is 5 feet 7 inches tall (Approximately 1.7m or 170cm).
Steve Rosenberg Nationality
He is British by nationality.
Steve Rosenberg Education
Rosenberg completed his A-Levels studies at Chingford Senior High. He then joined the University of Leeds where he studied Russian graduating in August 1991 with a first-class honor in Russian Studies.
Steve Rosenberg Parents
Steve was born in Epping, Essex, and grew up in Chingford, East London. Growing up Steve had a passion for playing piano and he said: “We had a grand piano at our home in Chingford which I started learning to play when I was six or seven. I used to play duets with my mother, and hearing Dvořák’s Slavonic Dances reminds me of the moment I realized playing music collectively was fun.”
He is Jewish. In 1894 his great-grandfather Haim Gnessin left the Russian Empire on a passport he still has.
Steve Rosenberg Wife
Who is Steve Rosenberg married to? Steve is married to his Russian wife and the couple has two kids, a 22-year-old daughter, and a 19-year-old son, living in the UK.
Steve Rosenberg BBC News
Who is BBC’s, Steve Rosenberg? Rosenberg is a Russia Editor for BBC News. He was appointed BBC Russia Editor on 10 March 2022, to strengthen the BBC’s coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This was an expansion of his role as a Moscow correspondent.
Rosenberg grew up in Chingford in east London. After studying Russian at Leeds University he moved to Moscow, where he taught English. He worked for CBS News as a translator, producer, and reporter on the war in Chechnya.
In 1997 Rosenberg became a producer in the BBC’s Moscow bureau. In 2000, he was appointed as a reporter for the BBC in Moscow. Three years later, he became its Moscow correspondent. Among the stories he covered in that period were the Kursk submarine disaster (2000), the Nord Ost theatre siege (2002), and the aftermath of the Beslan school attack (2004). In 2003 he interviewed Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich.
Between 2006 and 2010, Rosenberg was the BBC’s Berlin correspondent, covering stories in Germany and across Europe. In 2010 he returned to Russia for a second stint as Moscow correspondent. In 2015, the government of Ukraine issued a decree banning several journalists, including Rosenberg, from entering the country over his coverage of the war in Donbas. The decree stated those banned were a “threat to national interests” or engaged in promoting “terrorist activities”. The BBC labeled the ban “a shameful attack on media freedom”. The Ukrainians retracted the ban just a day later.
In 2018, Rosenberg was praised by other journalists for confronting Vladimir Putin with a question about the attempted assassination of Sergei and Yulia Skripal. However, Putin did not directly answer the question.
Rosenberg is also a talented pianist and regularly posts musical updates on Twitter.
Steve Rosenberg Salary
He receives an average annual salary of $98,650 as of 2023.
Steve Rosenberg Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth ranging between $1 million – $5 million.
