Dean Rotbart is a former reporter/editor with the Wall Street Journal. He has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting. He also won the John Hancock Award for Excellence in Business and Financial Journalism.

On September 11, 2001, the main global newsroom of the Wall Street Journal, which was located across the street from the World Trade Center, was destroyed when the twin towers collapsed. Suddenly the business and financial reporters found themselves covering an event that they never expected.

Acting as war corespondents, the staff went above and beyond their normal duties in order to cover the event that was unfolding in front of them.

Rotbart has written a book, September Twelfth: An American Comeback Story, tells the behind-the-scenes story of how The Wall Street Journal published a Pulitzer Prize-winni ...