Dan Rottenberg is an author, editor, and journalist who served his profession for over seven decades. There aren’t many folks who could subtitle a memoir My Seventy Years on the Frontiers of Free Speech as Rottenberg did earlier this year when he published his 12th book, The Education of a Journalist. Dan is my new hero.

During his storied tenure, Rottenberg was the executive editor of Philadelphia Magazine, managing editor of Chicago Journalism Review, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, and the chief editor of seven publications including Philadelphia’s Broad Street Review, an online arts and culture salon he created in 2005.

Rottenberg also wrote an editorial page column for the Philadelphia Inquirer from 1978 to 1997, and authored more than 300 articles for publications like, The New York Times Magazine, Bloomberg, Forbes, and the Rolling Stone. 

During our sixty minutes together, we talked about the history of journalism, the importance of free speech, why he dedicated his life to the written word, and the future of journalism in a digital world.

I hope you learn as much as I did.

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