Craig Bromberg

Craig Bromberg (born 1958 in New York City) is an American author, consultant, and media executive. The former editor-in-chief of Samsung’s brand magazine, DigitAll, Bromberg was editorial founder of Time Warner's Pathfinder.com and is the author of a biography, The Wicked Ways of Malcolm McLaren. More recently, Bromberg consults on digital media strategy to clients including Citibank’s Mortgage.com and the Daily News. He is married to Hilary Bromberg, and has two sons, Isaac and Samuel.

Education

Bromberg received his Bachelor’s degree with Honors in Government from Oberlin College, Ohio; an M.Sc., Econ. from the London School of Economics and Political Science where he studied History of Political Thought with philosopher Michael Oakeshott; and an MBA in management from New York University Stern School of Business. Bromberg is also an alumni of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program in Studio Art.

Career

Journalism

Bromberg began his career as an art critic, writing primarily for the East Village Eye and Los Angeles Times. From 1984, he wrote frequently on popular culture and technology for many magazines and newspapers including The New York Times, Vanity Fair, and New York (magazine). In 1989, Harper & Row published The Wicked Ways of Malcolm McLaren, his biography of Malcolm McLaren, the manager of the [...] Pistols, Boy George, Adam Ant, Bow Wow Wow, McLaren’s common-law wife, Vivienne Westwood, and the politics and art of the UK from 1945 to 1989. (The Wicked Ways of Malcolm McLaren was also published in the UK by Omnibus BooksIn 1991.) Most of Bromberg’s writing since has focused on technology, travel, and business innovation for the magazines he has edited, including Samsung’s DigitAll.
Editorial career

From 1992 to 1993, Bromberg was acting editor in chief of Avenue. After Time’s Walter Isaacson learned that Bromberg had been a founding member of EchoNYC, he joined Time Inc. New Media, soon to be Time Warner Pathfinder.com. as its editor. In 1995, Bromberg left Pathfinder, and over the next eight years was editor-in-chief or executive editor of various ventures, including: editor-in-chief of Booksfirst, a national magazine about print culture for Disney Publishing Worldwide; US & global editorial director of BOL, Bertelsmann’s competitor to Amazon.com; and executive launch editor of eShopper an offshoot of Yahoo! Internet Life for Ziff Davis). In 2000, Bromberg was recruited on behalf of Samsung Group to create a new editorial marketing platform for the company. For seven years, Bromberg was editor-in-chief of Digitall, a quarterly digital thought leadership magazine in print and online; DigitAll was closed by Samsung in 2007.

Consulting and startups

Under the name Hudson Media, Bromberg has consulted to Citibank’s Mortgage.com, Crains NY Business, Fortune Small Business, and the Daily News, providing strategic and executive editorial services. In 2000, Bromberg attempted a social media venture for booklovers, Bookhits; in 2005, he assembled a team to start The Green and The Green.net, a blog-based free weekly newspaper for distribution to “young business executives” in 12 U.S. DMAs.

Performance and music

From 1981-1982, Bromberg was part of the post-punk music scene in New York, playing guitar in Rhys Chatham’s rock ensemble, and, from 1982 to 1986, as a regular member of Glenn Branca’s orchestral touring band. From 1981 to 1984, Bromberg was also active as a performance artist and produced performances at New York's Performance Space 122 (Fascist Studies) and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center (The Last Social Spectacle).

Bibliography

The Wicked Ways of Malcolm McLaren http://www.amazon.com/Wicked-Ways-Malcolm-McLaren/dp/0060962046

External links

Squat Theater: http://squattheatre.com/article14.html
Susan Kare: www.kare.com/articles/ Images/ID_Magazine.jp
Mark Morris: artforum.com/diary/archive=200504
8BC http://flickr.com/photos/30068409@N00/292522933
Ludlow Street Landlord: http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/crimelaw/features/2384/
What’s the Frequency Kenneth: http://bitly.com/10u2xb
The New Yorker (Free registration): http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=1988-06-20#folio=025
Dakar Rally: http://archive.salon.com/business/feature/2000/10/26/presidio_challenge/index1.html