Scott Rosenberg (born 1959 in Queens, New York, is an American journalist, editor, blogger and non-fiction author. He was a co-founder of Salon Media Group and Salon.com and a relatively early participant in The WELL.
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 Rosenberg at the Darknet book release party | |
| Born | 1959 (age 64–65) Queens, New York, US |
| Education | Harvard University |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, editor, blogger, author |
| Notable credit(s) | Salon.com, The San Francisco Examiner |
| Spouse | Dayna Macy |
| Children | 2 |
| Website | www |
Rosenberg's first book, Dreaming in Code,[1] appeared in 2007. It offers a detailed perspective on collaboration and massive software endeavors, particularly the open source calendar application Chandler (PIM).
His writings at Salon.com, The San Francisco Examiner and elsewhere have ranged from theatre and film criticism to technology reporting and political commentary.
In 2009, he published a book on the history of blogging, Say Everything.[2]
In 2010, Rosenberg founded MediaBugs.org, a "service for reporting specific, correctable errors and problems in media coverage". In an interview, he explains: "We'll try to alert the journalists or news organization involved about your report and bring them into a conversation," which may get the error corrected. It is funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation as part of their News Challenge.[3] In September 2012, at the end of the funding period, he stated in a blog post: "Much of the public sees media-outlet accuracy failures as 'not our problem.' The journalists are messing up, they believe, and it's the journalists' job to fix things."[4]
Personal life
editRosenberg is the son of Jeanne and Coleman Rosenberg. He is married to Dayna Macy and has two sons, Matthew and Jack. They live in Berkeley, California.[5]
Further reading
edit- Blood, Rebecca (October 2006). "Scott Rosenberg". Rebecca's Pocket. Retrieved May 8, 2009.
- Pence, Mike (December 3, 2004). "Misbehaving on the page". Kuro5hin. Retrieved May 8, 2009.
References
edit- ^ Rosenberg, Scott (2007). Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software (1st ed.). New York: Crown Publishers. p. 400. ISBN 978-1-4000-8246-9.
- ^ Rosenberg, Scott, Say Everything: how blogging Began, what it's becoming, and why it matters, New York : Crown Publishers, 2009. ISBN 978-0-307-45136-1
- ^ Nieman Journalism Lab. "MediaBugs". Encyclo: an Encyclopedia of the Future of News. Retrieved April 1, 2012.
- ^ Rosenberg, Scott (September 6, 2012). "MediaBugs — Sharing our final report to our funders at Knight". Retrieved November 3, 2012.
- ^ Dreaming in Code, Acknowledgements
External links
edit- "About Scott Rosenberg and this blog" at Wordyard (wordyard.com)
- Index of Salon articles by Rosenberg – published at Salon.com 1995 to 2006 (archived October 16, 2006)
- Scott Rosenberg at Library of Congress, with catalog records
WARNING: As of June 2022, LC credits this Scott Rosenberg ("Browse ... LC Catalog") with some works by the screenwriter born 1963. The same is true at WorldCat.