Howard Rosenberg

Howard Rosenberg is the Pulitzer Prize-winning former television critic for the Los Angeles Times,
where his provocative column was distributed nationally and widely read by decision makers in the media and entertainment industry for 25 years. He now writes a monthly column on news media for that newspaper.

Witty, outspoken and known for his courageous views, Rosenberg was named the nation’s best TV critic in a survey of his colleagues conducted by Electronic Media and has won numerous awards for his print commentaries.

Rosenberg has been interviewed on many major national news programs from ABC’s “Nightline” to CNN. He has been a sports media commentator on ESPN and was author of the nationally syndicated satirical cartoon strip, Airwaves.

At the University of Southern California, Rosenberg teaches news ethics in the Annenberg School and critical writing and a TV symposium in the School of Cinematic Arts.

An anthology of Rosenberg’s columns and essays, Not So Prime Time: Chasing the Trivial on American Television, was published by Ivan R. Dee in Chicago. Publisher’s Weekly granted it a coveted starred review, anointing it a “delectable book of crisp, witty and caustic criticism.” Said Kirkus Reviews: “Rosenberg is the real thing—a serious thoughtful, lucent writer whose low-brow beat appears almost incongruous... No one has mapped TV’s terrain more thoroughly and starkly. And Bill Moyers proclaimed: “Read this and you’ll see why the Pulitzer jurors said Howard is the best.”

No Time to Think: The Menace of Media Speed and the 24-Hour News Cycle, is Rosenberg’s latest book about the perils of new-age media. Co-written by Charles S. Feldman, it is due to be published in October, 2008 by Continuum Publishing.

A native of Kansas City, Mo., Rosenberg earned a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Oklahoma and a Master’s degree in political science from the University of Minnesota. Ardent animal advocates, he and his wife, Carol, live in a suburb of Los Angeles with a cockatiel, a cat and stacks of videotapes and DVDs.