Howard Rosenberg

Pulitzer Prize-winning television critic for the Los Angeles Times from 1978 to 2003, Howard Rosenberg is now adjunct professor at the University of Southern California, where he teaches news ethics in the Annenberg School and criticism in the film-television school. Described as "the conscience that the medium of television seems to have misplaced," his observations are crisp, smart, furious, and funny a brief history of the ongoing cultural phenomenon that is television. He became a television critic after years of working as reporter for the Moline Daily Dispatch and the Louisville Times.

With a B.A. from the University of Oklahoma and M.A. from the University of Minnesota, Rosenberg has also taught at UCLA and Cal State Northridge, and was syndicated in over 600 newspapers, addressing a wide variety of topics such as TV News Ethics, TV as History, TV and Law, TV and Crime, TV and Jews, TV Families, TV Ethnic Stereotypes, Primetime and Politics, TV and Talk Shows, TV and Death. He was named one of the national media critics with clout by the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center at Columbia University in 1995 and the nation's best TV critic in 1996 by Electronic Media. He is the author of When Media Misbehaves.