Andrew Rosenthal isnât Swedish, nor does he speak Swedish. The former editorial page editor of the New York Times says his initial knowledge of the country was informed by shopping trips he took in the â80s, while serving as Moscow bureau chief for the APâand of the Swedish press, by what he learned from watching the Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. But in an unlikely move, Rosenthal, who is semiretired after decades of rising through the newsroom ranks, has taken a job as the interim editor in chief of a vexed Swedish media start-up called Bulletin. âThe thing that makes it possible is that itâs not my job to figure out Swedish politics, and itâs not my job to influence the Opinion pages,â Rosenthal told me. âThe purpose here is to stand up a functioning news organization.âÂ