At the Journal, Ms. Rosett worked as books editor from 1984-86; as editorial page editor of The Asian Wall Street Journal from 1986-93; as a reporter and then bureau chief in the Journal's Moscow bureau from 1993-96; and as a member of the Journal’s editorial board in New York from 1997-2002.

In 2005, Ms. Rosett received the Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Opinion Journalism for her coverage of the United Nations. In 1990 she received an Overseas Press Club citation for excellence for her on-the-scene coverage of the Tiananmen Square uprising in 1989. Ms. Rosett received a bachelor’s degree in English from Yale. She has a master’s in English from Columbia and a master’s in business administration from the University of Chicago.