Scott Rosenberg | |
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 Rosenberg at the Darknet book release party | |
| Born | 1959 (age 66–67) Queens, New York, US |
| Education | Harvard University (AB) |
| Occupations | Journalist, editor, blogger, author |
| Notable credit(s) | Salon.com,The San Francisco Examiner |
| Spouse | Dayna Macy |
| Children | 2 |
| Website | www |
Scott Rosenberg (born 1959 inQueens, New York, is an American journalist, editor, blogger and non-fiction author. He was a co-founder of Salon Media Group andSalon.com and a relatively early participant inThe WELL. Since 2018, he has been the managing editor of technology atAxios.
Rosenberg was born in Queens to Jeanne and Coleman Rosenberg. He attendedHarvard University, where he graduated with a degree in history and literature. While at Harvard, he worked forThe Harvard Crimson.[1]
After working atThe San Francisco Examiner, Rosenberg left the paper to found Salon.com in 1995.[2] He served as the outlet's managing editor from 1999 to 2004, eventually leaving in 2007 to writeDreaming in Code.[3] It offers a detailed perspective on collaboration and massive software endeavors, particularly theopen source calendar applicationChandler (PIM). His second bookSay Everything, on the history ofblogging, came out in 2009.[4]
From 2011 to 2014, Rosenberg worked atGrist.[5] In 2018, Rosenberg joinedAxios as its managing editor of technology.[6]
In 2010, Rosenberg foundedMediaBugs.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 theJohn S. and James L. Knight Foundation as part of theirNews Challenge.[7] 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."[8]
He is married to Dayna Macy. The couple have two sons, Matthew and Jack. They live inBerkeley, California.[9]
WARNING: As of June 2022, LC credits this Scott Rosenberg ("Browse ... LC Catalog") with some works by thescreenwriter born 1963. The same is trueat WorldCat.
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