David Rosen has reported on sex, politics, media-tech and American life for over a decade.
He is the author of three books on American social life:
- Prohibition New York City: Speakeasy Queen Texas Guinan, Blind Pigs Drag Balls and More (History Press, 2020).
- Sex, Sin & Subversion: The Transformation of 1950s New York’s Forbidden into America’s New Normal (Skyhorse/Carrel Books, 2016); it was nominated for the 2017 Bonnie and Vern Bullough Book Award by the Foundation for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (FSSS).
- Sex Scandal America: Politics & the Ritual of Public Shaming (Key Publishing, 2009).
He was commissioned by a group of philanthropists to write:
- Diss-Connected: How America’s Big Telecoms Stole Billions from the Public and Created the Digital Divide by David Rosen with Bruce Kushnick (New Networks Institute, 2022).
- Violations & Egregious Acts: Trillion Dollar Broadband Scandal by Bruce Kushnick with David Rosen (New Networks Institute, 2022).
Rosen is also the author of the “indie” film classic, Off-Hollywood: The Making & Marketing of Independent Films (Grove, 1991), originally commissioned by the Sundance Institute and the Independent Feature Project.
He’s published numerous academic articles, book reviews and popular pieces as well as chapters for nonfiction anthologies. He has written for AlterNet, American Hearld Tribune, Black Star News, Brooklyn Rail, Church & State, CounterPunch, Cyber Defense, DocumentaryTelevision, Filmmaker, 429, IndieWire, Logos, Medium, New Politics, New York Journal of Books, Monthly Review, Progressive, Salon, Sexuality & Culture, SGP (Sexuality, Gender & Policy), Truthout and The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies.
Professionally, Rosen was a business-development executive with three decades experience working on the management teams of Phillips and Commodore that launched worldwide the first interactive CD systems; served on the management teams of two media-tech start-ups; provided executive-level strategic consulting services to major U.S. and international for-profit corporations and non-profit organizations; and provided consulting services to numerous start-up ventures and independent media makers.
Rosen created and was executive director of Digital Independence: The Forum for Creativity, Technology and Democracy, a multi-year conference supported by the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations. He served as researcher to screen writer Saul Levitt on The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald, ABC’s first multi-episode series; and he won an Emmy Award as project director for the WNET/13 series, The American City hosted by John Lindsey. He served on the boards of directions/advisors of the Independent Television Service (ITVS-PBS, Treasurer), MoMA-NY Video Collection, Film Arts Foundation and a U.S. Congressman.