Phil Rosenthal (born July 14, 1963) is a general and sports media

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, formerly of the ''

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''. He joined the newspaper in early 2005 as a business writer, authoring the "

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" column, and was promoted in June 2011, before taking a buyout in June 2021 after

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was bought out by

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. He had previously worked for the ''

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Biography

Rosenthal was born in

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and grew up in

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. He is a graduate of Lake Forest High School and the

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. He has been chairman of the UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication's Board of Visitors. Lake Bluff's Rosenthal Field is named for Rosenthal's late father, a former youth baseball coach and elementary school board member. Rosenthal's mother was once Lake Bluff's village clerk and served on the local high school board. Rosenthal is married to the former Jennie Zbikowski, half-sister of former pro football player

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External links

Rosenthal's recent ''Chicago Tribune'' columnsRosenthal's inactive Tower Ticker media blog for the Chicago Tribune
1963 births Living people Chicago Tribune people Chicago Sun-Times people American columnists Jewish American journalists American male journalists People from Lake Bluff, Illinois University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni Journalists from Illinois Lake Forest High School (Illinois) alumni 20th-century American journalists 21st-century American Jews {{US-journalist-1960s-stub