Steven Rosenbaum (born 1961) is an American television producer and Filmmaker best known as the creator of MTV News UNfiltered.
He is the author of Curation Nation curationnation.org published by McGrawHill Business on March 11th, 2011. The book explores the emerging phenomenon of human organization and publishing of content. Reviewer Shel Holtz said: "This groundbreaking book levels the playing field, giving your business equal access to the content abundance presently driving consumer adoption of the Web.”
He is the founder of Magnify.net, where people can integrate user-generated video, video that they produce, or video that they discover into a website with social networking features.
In 2011, Rosenbaum created The 9/11 Memorial: Past, Present, and Future www.911MemorialApp.com a hybrid book and multi-media offering for the Apple iPad. The so-called AppBook received both critical acclaim and criticism for not supporting android devices.
Rosenbaum was named Purdue University Science Journalism Laureate in 2011.
Rosenbaum won an Emmy Award for BROADCAST: New York and then created the series MTV News UNfiltered for MTV, an early example of viewer-generated content in broadcast. "News Unfiltered" encouraged people film their own stories.
Rosenbaum directed the documentary feature 7 Days In September, a look at 9/11 and the week after. Rosenbaum also created the CameraPlanet 9/11 Archive, [1] an archive of footage from September 11 and its aftermath. Rosenbaum has received 2 Emmy Awards, 6 New York Festival's World Medals, 4 CINE Golden Eagles, and 6 Telly Awards. CameraPlanet holds a large archive of videos from 9/11, mainly consisting of home videos taken by professionals and amateurs in September 2001.
Other producer credits include the Animal Planet series Dog Days and VH1's A Night With. CameraPlanet Chief Correspondent Peter Arnett reported from Afghanistan and Pre-War Iraq.
In 1998, Rosenbaum created and funded a video journalism program at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and founded the BNN Scholarship for Columbia University journalism students. Rosenbaum also serves as a member of Board of Advisors for a nonprofit organization, ClassWish.org.