David S. Rohde

David Stephenson Rohde (born August 7, 1967) is an American author and investigative journalist. He is the former online news director for The New Yorker and now the senior executive editor on national security for NBC News. While a reporter for The Christian Science Monitor, he won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1996 for his coverage of the Srebrenica massacre. From 2002 to 2005, he was co-chief of The New York Times's South Asia bureau, based in New Delhi. He later contributed to the newspaper's team coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan that received the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting and was a finalist in his own right in the category in 2010. He was a global affairs analyst for CNN. and held the position of Senior Executive Editor of National Security and Law before joining MS NOW (formerly MSNBC) on October 20, 2025 as Senior National Security Reporter. During the Bosnian War in 1995, Rohde was arrested by Bosnian Serb authorities after his reporting on the Srebrenica massacre, a genocidal killing of thousands of Bosniak men and boys. He was held for ten days until intense diplomatic pressure by the US government secured his release. While in Afghanistan, Rohde was kidnapped by members of the Taliban in November 2008 but escaped in June 2009. While he was in captivity, The New York Times collaborated with a number of media outlets, including Al-Jazeera and Wikipedia, to remove news of the kidnapping from the public eye. This was done to decrease his value as a hostage and bargaining chip and thereby increase his chance of survival.