Har­ry Rosen­feld spent his work­ing life as a news­pa­per­man – edi­tor, war cor­re­spon­dent, colum­nist. He began as a clerk at The New York Her­ald Tri­bune, where he rose to become For­eign Edi­tor. At the Tri­bune​’s demise, he joined The Wash­ing­ton Post, where he over­saw cov­er­age of the Pulitzer-prize win­ning Water­gate inves­ti­ga­tion. In 1978, he was recruit­ed to edit two dailies, the Times Union and the Knicker­bock­er News, in Albany, N.Y. As edi­tor, he wrote a nation­al­ly dis­trib­uted week­ly col­umn that he con­tin­ued for many years until retire­ment at the end of 1997.