Scott Rosenberg | |
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&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:Scott_Rosenberg_1a.jpg) 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 |
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.
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]
- ^ 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.