Journalist Dan Rottenberg has been the chief editor of seven publications, most recently broadstreetreview.com, a cultural arts website he launched in January 2006 with the support of the University of the Arts. He is also the author of nine books, most recently In the Kingdom of Coal, a narrative history of the U.S. coal industry as seen through the eyes of two families (Routledge, 2003).

His previous books include Finding Our Fathers, a guide to tracing Jewish ancestors (1977); Fight On, Pennsylvania, a college football history (1985); Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen, the history of a Philadelphia law firm (1988); Main Line Wasp, the memoirs of Philadelphia civic leader W. Thacher Longstreth (1990); Revolution on Wall Street, a chronicle of the securities industry (1993); Middletown Jews, an oral history of the Jews of Muncie, Indiana (1997); The Inheritor's Handbook (1998); and The Man Who Made Wall Street, a biography of Anthony Drexel (2001).

From 2000 to 2004 he was editor of Family Business, an international quarterly magazine dealing with family-owned companies, where he remains senior editor. From 1996 to 1998 he was editor of the Philadelphia Forum, a weekly Philadelphia opinion paper which he founded in 1996. In 1993 he created Seven Arts, a monthly magazine based in Philadelphia. From 1981 to 1993 he edited the Welcomat, a unique Philadelphia-based weekly opinion forum, now known as Philadelphia Weekly.

He wrote an editorial-page column for the Philadelphia Inquirer from 1978 to 1997. He has written more than 300 articles for such magazines as Town & Country, Reader's Digest, The New York Times Magazine, Forbes, Civilization, American Benefactor, TV Guide, Playboy, Rolling Stone, Chicago and many others. He served as a consultant in 1981 when Forbes launched its annual Forbes 400 list of wealthiest Americans. His syndicated film commentaries appeared in monthly city magazines around the U.S. from 1971 to 1983.

Earlier in his career he was executive editor of Philadelphia magazine, managing editor of Chicago Journalism Review, a Wall Street Journal reporter, and editor of the Commercial-Review, a daily newspaper in Portland, Indiana.

Dan Rottenberg is a native of New York City and a 1964 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife, a piano teacher. Their two grown daughters live and work in New York City.

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Awards and Honors

National

2001. American Society of Business Publication Editors, Gold Award for Editorial Excellence, Feature Article (under 80,000 circulation): "When Retirement Needs a Cure," Bloomberg Wealth Manager, April 2001.

2000. American Society of Business Publication Editors, Gold Award for Editorial Excellence, Case History (under 80,000 circulation): "Where Old money meets New," Bloomberg Wealth Manager, June 2000.

1992. Temple University Free Speech Award "for outstanding contributions to the preservation of a free, responsible and vigorous press."

1977. Women in Communications, Clarion Award for Best Single Magazine Article (category: The World We live In): "Edison's Nuclear Gamble," Chicago Magazine, December 1976.

1975. J.C. Penney/U. of Missouri First Place Award for Editorial Excellence: "Fernanda," Philadelphia Magazine, February 1975.

1968. Inland Daily Press Association, First Prize, General Editorial Excellence (under 25,000 circulation): Portland (Ind.) Commercial-Review.

Regional

2001. American Society of Business Publication Editors, Eastern Region, Gold Award for Editorial Excellence, Feature Article (under 80,000 circulation): "When Retirement Needs a Cure," Bloomberg Wealth Manager, April 2001.

2000. American Society of Business Publication Editors, Eastern Region, Gold Award for Editorial Excellence, Case History (under 80,000 circulation): "Where Old money Meets New," Bloomberg Wealth Manager, June 2000.

Local

1998. Jewish Genealogical Society of Philadelphia, Malcolm H. Stern Award "for distinguished leadership and service in the field of Jewish genealogy."

1984. Chicago Headline Club, Peter Lisagor Award, for Magazine Reporting: "The Last Run of the Rock Island Line," Chicago Magazine, September 1984.

1982. Chicago Headline Club, Peter Lisagor Award, Financial Writing/General Circulation: "The Bank That Couldn't Say No," Chicago Magazine, November 1982.

1975. Society of Professional Journalists/Sigma Delta Chi, Philadelphia Chapter, Excellence in Writing: "Fernanda," Philadelphia Magazine, February 1975.