Dorothy Rabinowitz is a member of the editorial board and a television critic for The Wall Street Journal. She writes television criticism for the paper and also writes "Dorothy Rabinowitz's Media Log" for OpionJournal.com.

Ms. Rabinowitz joined the Journal in June 1990 as an editorial page writer and television critic. She was named to the paper's editorial board in May 1996.

Prior to joining the Journal, Ms. Rabinowitz had been an independent writer since 1968. Her work has appeared in several publications, including Commentary, Harper's Magazine and New York Magazine. She has been a syndicated columnist and a television and media commentator on WWOR-TV News. She is the author of New Lives, a book about survivors of death camps, published in 1976 by Alfred Knopf, and Home Life, a book about old age, published by Macmillan in 1970.

Ms. Rabinowitz has been named a Pulitzer Prize finalist three times. She was a finalist in the criticism category in 1998 and 1995 for her television critiques and in the commentary category in 1996 for her editorial page features on false sexual abuse charges. She received the 1997 Champion of Justice Award from the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in recognition of her journalistic achievements and commending her in particular for her writing on false sexual abuse charges. In 1993, she won the Distinguished Writing Award from the American Society of Newspaper Editors in the commentary category.

A native of New York, Ms. Rabinowitz earned a bachelor's degree from Queens College, City University of New York. From 1957 to 1960, she worked toward a doctorate in arts and sciences at New York University, while teaching in the English departments at N.Y.U. and Pratt Institute.