. Vin Crosbie
. Adjunct Professor
and
Senior Consultant on Executive Education in New Media
Introduction
Since 2007, Vin Crosbie has been an adjunct professor of Visual & Interactive Communications and the Newhouse school's senior consultant on executive education in New Media. He teaches graduate and executive classes in New Media Business.
Folio, the trade journal of the magazine industry, called him "the Practical Futurist." Editor & Publisher magazine, the trade journal of the American newspaper industry, devoted the Overview chapter of executive research report Digital Delivery of News: A How-to Guide for Publishers to his work. His speech to the Broadcast Education Association session at the National Association of Broadcasters annual conference was one of 24 orations (including speeches by Barak Obama, George W. Bush, Condolezza Rice, and Hilary Clinton) selected by a team of speech professors for publication in the reference book Representative American Speeches 2004-2005.
In 1996, Crosbie founded the consulting firm of Digital Deliverance LLC in Greenwich, Connecticut; worked full-time for it full-time until coming to the Newhouse School; and still serves as its managing partner. Prior to that, he was director of content development at Freemark Communications of Cambridge, Massachusetts, one of the companies credited with inventing free e-mail services (precursors of today's YahooMail and GMail) and had previously been director of online partnership at News Corp.'s Internet subsidiary, Delphi Internet Services Corporation – the world's first Internet Service Provider for consumers. During the 1980s, he was a newspaper repoter and publishing executive and then an executive with Reuters and the old United Press International. He is the fifth generation of his family to publish daily newspapers.
While working as a consultant, Crosbie has been the new-media columnist for the International Newspaper Marketing Association's Ideas magazine; contributing editor for the American Press Institute's NewsFuture newsletter; monthly columnist about online publishing ClickZ.com; and a founding contributor to the Poynter Institute's E-Media Tidbits group weblog. He is the founder of Corante's Rebuilding Mediagroup weblog.
Professor Crosbie regularly speaks at major media conference worldwide about what news media needs to do in order to survive and profit during the 21st Century. He was co-chairman and co-moderator of the 2006 Beyond the Printed Word conference in Vienna; keynoted the 2000 Seybold Publishing Strategies conference; and was co-chairman of the publishing program at the Comdex conferences in Las Vegas during the 1990s.
Google him for references to his work.
An experienced mountaineer with ascents in the Alps, North America, and Latin America, Crosbie holds a commercial guide certification from the U.S. National Forest Service and taught above-treeline winter travel and Nordic skiing for the Appalachian Mountain Club's headquarters chapter in Boston. He lives in Syracuse.
'What is New Media'
Fall 2008 Semester
New Media Business class
Extracurricular
Speaking Schedule
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Media Development Loan Fund DesignShop
Podgorica, Montenegro, November 21-22, 2008. -
Fourth Annual Communications Law & Policy Symposium,
Syracuse, New York State, February 28, 2009. -
Conference on Serious Problems Facing the News Media,
Massachusetts School of Law, Andover, Massachusetts, March 7-8, 2009.
