Scott Rosenberg (journalist)

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Scott Rosenberg
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Rosenberg at the Darknet book release party
Born1959 (age 65–66)
Queens, New York, US
Education Harvard University (AB)
Occupation(s)Journalist, editor, blogger, author
Notable credit(s) Salon.com , The San Francisco Examiner
SpouseDayna Macy
Children2
Website www.wordyard.com

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. Since 2018, he has been the managing editor of technology at Axios.

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Early life and education

Rosenberg was born in Queens to Jeanne and Coleman Rosenberg. He attended Harvard University, where he graduated with a degree in history and literature. While at Harvard, he worked for The Harvard Crimson. [1]

Career

After working at The 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 write Dreaming in Code. [3] It offers a detailed perspective on collaboration and massive software endeavors, particularly the open source calendar application Chandler (PIM). His second book Say Everything, on the history of blogging, came out in 2009. [4]

From 2011 to 2014, Rosenberg worked at Grist. [5] In 2018, Rosenberg joined Axios as its managing editor of technology. [6]

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. [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]

Personal life

He is married to Dayna Macy. The couple have two sons, Matthew and Jack. They live in Berkeley, California. [9]

Further reading

References

  1. ↑ "Scott A. Rosenberg | Writer Page | The Harvard Crimson". www.thecrimson.com. Retrieved November 6, 2025.
  2. ↑ "About Scott Rosenberg and this blog". www.wordyard.com. Retrieved November 6, 2025.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ 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
  5. ↑ Giller, Chip (September 12, 2011). "Meet Scott Rosenberg, Grist's new executive editor". Grist. Retrieved November 6, 2025.
  6. ↑ "Scott Rosenberg". Axios. Retrieved November 6, 2025.
  7. ↑ Nieman Journalism Lab. "MediaBugs". Encyclo: an Encyclopedia of the Future of News. Retrieved April 1, 2012.
  8. ↑ Rosenberg, Scott (September 6, 2012). "MediaBugs — Sharing our final report to our funders at Knight" . Retrieved November 3, 2012.
  9. ↑ Dreaming in Code, Acknowledgements

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.

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