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1. 1. Jeff Rosenberg

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   Published on: 8/26/2005   Last Visited: 8/26/2005

   Jeff Rosenberg
   
   Jeff Rosenberg is currently director of National Public Radio (NPR) Worldwide. He is responsible for international distribution of NPR programs in more than 150 countries around the world. Earlier, Mr. Rosenberg was the director of News Broadcast Relations and senior producer of NPR Events Unit in the News and Information Division. The unit produced coverage of presidential news conferences, hearings, briefings, debates, election nights and political conventions.
   
   Mr. Rosenberg has more than 30 years' experience with National Public Radio. He was part of the planning team for NPR's acclaimed evening newsmagazine ALL THINGS CONSIDERED in 1971 and went on to work as an associate producer, director and tape editor for the program during its early years. Since then, he has had a broad range of assignments within the news division.
   
   In the early 1970s, he worked on some of NPR's first special projects. In June 1972, he produced NPR's first foreign broadcast - two weeks of live one-hour reports from the United Nations World Conference on the Environment from Stockholm. He also produced NPR's coverage of the Senate Watergate Hearings.
   
   In 1979, Mr. Rosenberg was tapped to produce the first weekly news program devoted solely to foreign policy concerns, "Communique." He then produced the daily program, "NPR Dateline."
   
   He has also been NPR's representative to the U.S. network radio pool, and has frequently served as producer on behalf of all American networks for pooled coverage of presidential foreign travel.
   
   From 1978-1992, Mr. Rosenberg served on the media advisory committee of the Indo-U.S. Subcommission, a private venture designed to foster cooperation between U.S. and Indian media. He has planned and supervised a number of workshops with All India Radio for Indian producers and reporters.
   
   A native of Buffalo, NY, Mr. Rosenberg has a degree in communications from Northwestern University. He also studied international communications at the Tufts University Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, through a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

2. 2. www.rwonline.com

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   Published on: 6/6/2007   Last Visited: 6/8/2007

   Jeff Rosenberg, 40, who operates Modulation Magic in Newton Highlands, Mass., near Boston, has taken some what of a different tactic to handle the ebbs and flow of the radio engineering business.
   
   While he said that HD has been the "mainstay" of his business for the past year, with some large installs and another on the calendar, he has ventured into sound and industrial install business.
   
   "When I'm not busy, I'll go install a telephone system," Rosenberg said. "I'll put in a computer network. I do a lot of sound systems that end up in restaurants and nightclubs. Why not? In order to do turnkey product, I need to do enough volume to make manufacturers happy."
   
   And Rosenberg said being a broadcast engineer gives him a heads-up on other install engineers. Rosenberg, who holds CBNT certification from SBE, is a member of the Audio Engineering Society and is past president of the Boston chapter. He also is a certified integrator for Wheatstone/Audioarts and a certified HD integrator for Broadcast Electronics.
   
   ,Hooked' on engineering
   
   Rosenberg said he "was hooked" by engineering while attending Curry College in Milton, Mass., in the 1980s where he eventually became the first student station engineer. He credits the late Jim Rakiey, Boston-area engineer, with his "training-by-fire" education in the beginning.
   
   "I started doing contracting gigs right away while I was in college," Rosenberg said. "Anything anybody would pay me to do I would go out and do."
   
   He said he had another full-time job from which he learned how to run a business and did contracting on the side until the part-time work grew into full-time.
   
   For anybody looking to get into full-time contract work, Rosenberg's advice is get business training outside the industry. "I worked retail. I let a corporation pay for my accounting education, my bookkeeping education."
   
   As other contractors have talked about the ups and downs of work, Rosenberg said you have to balance your budget. "You have to plan for the rainy day," he said.
   
   Looking ahead, Rosenberg said the prospects of engineers coming along, especially those in RF, are not too good. He has trouble finding people to work with him, and he is working with a student, one of his two part-time employees.
   
   As for the amount of work to come, he believes that as the big groups develop their stations, there will be more work for remotes and more staff as the business shifts back toward more localism.

3. 3. www.cspresidency.org

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   Published on: 1/17/2008   Last Visited: 4/15/2008

   MR. JEFF ROSENBERG Director, NPR Worldwide National Public Radio