Dan Rottenberg Email & Phone Number

Dan Rottenberg has been chief editor of seven innovative publications, most recently Broad Street Review, an online arts and culture salon he created in 2005. As an advocate for free expression and alternative media, he successfully defended seven libel suits and received Temple University’s Free Speech Award in 1992.His twelve published books include Finding Our Fathers, which launched the modern Jewish genealogy movement in 1977; Death of a Gunfighter, which was honored as the best Western history book of 2008; and, most recently, recently The Education of a Journalist: My Seventy Years on the Frontiers of Free Speech, published in 2022 by Redmount Press.He served as a consultant in 1981 when Forbes magazine launched its annual “Forbes 400” list of wealthiest Americans. He covered the Chicago Seven trial for the Wall Street Journal and chronicled billionaires for Town & Country Magazine. His syndicated film commentaries appeared in monthly city magazines around the U.S. from 1971 to 1983. He wrote an editorial-page column for the Philadelphia Inquirer from 1978 to 1997. He has written more than 300 articles for such magazines as Town & Country, Reader’s Digest, The New York Times Magazine, Forbes, Civilization, American Benefactor, Bloomberg Personal Finance, TV Guide, Playboy, Rolling Stone, Chicago, and many others.From 2000 to 2004 he was editor of Family Business, an international quarterly magazine dealing with family-owned companies. From 1996 to 1998 he was editor of the Philadelphia Forum, a weekly Philadelphia opinion paper that he founded. In 1993 he created Seven Arts, a monthly magazine based in Philadelphia. From 1981 to 1993 he edited the Welcomat, a unique Philadelphia-based weekly opinion forum, later known as Philadelphia Weekly.Earlier, he was a columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer, executive editor of Philadelphia Magazine, managing editor of Chicago Journalism Review, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, and editor of a daily newspaper in Indiana.

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  University Of Pennsylvania

  American/United States Studies/Civilization