David Rosen has reported on sex, politics, media-tech and American life for over a decade.
He is the author of four books on American social life:
- New York Counterculture During the Tumultuous 1960s (History Press, forthcoming, 2024).
- 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 has published numerous academic articles, book reviews and popular pieces as well as chapters for nonfiction anthologies. He has written for AlterNet, Black Star News, Brooklyn Rail, Church & State, CounterPunch, Logos, New Politics, New York Journal of Books, The Progressive, Salon, Sexuality & Culture, SGP (Sexuality, Gender & Policy), Truthout and The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies.
His TV credits include the WNET/13 series, The American City hosted by John Lindsey, for which he won an Emmy Award. He was research assistant to Saul Levitt, writer of The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald, ABC’s first miniseries.
He served as a media-tech marketing/business-development executive for Philips and Commodore launching worldwide the first CD-ROM systems; was an officer of two media-tech start-ups; and provided executive-level strategic consulting services to major U.S. and international for-profit corporations and non-profit organizations, 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. In addition, 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.