• Matt RosenbergNeighbor

  • Woodinville, WA

Matt Rosenberg is the founder and Executive Director of the non-profit, Public Eye Northwest. He has 27 years experience in public affairs and journalism. He was a regular op-ed columnist for the Seattle Times from 2001 to 2004; a widely published Seattle-based freelance journalist; a strategic communications and community outreach practitioner for a range of public sector, political and non-profit clients; and a reporter, opinion columnist and editorial writer in suburban Chicago covering local, regional and state government for a community newspaper chain. During college he was Assistant to the Chief Investigator of the Better Government Association in Chicago in the BGA-Chicago Sun-Times Pulitzer-finalist &#34;Mirage&#34; Tavern undercover investigation that documented political corruption and tax fraud. <br><br>Building on prior work writing on transportation and blogging on public policy, Matt served as a staff senior fellow for three years at Cascadia Center, the Seattle-based transportation think tank funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, where he developed a public education campaign using new and legacy media to highlight innovative surface transportation policy options for Central Puget Sound now being implemented. <br><br>Matt spent 2010 as director of Countywide Community Forums in King County, a privately funded public engagement program which works with citizens and directly with county government to gather and promote collective intelligence on key policy issues. CCF reached its highest level of citizen engagement under his leadership. <br><br>At CCF he founded the government transparency project Public Data Ferret, to enrich the news stream and build digital civic literacy. Ferret was featured weekly on the &#34;Nine To Noon&#34; show on KOMO-AM 1000 Seattle. The Ferret project and a companion blog, Social Capital Review, are now under PEN&#39;s umbrella. <br><br>Matt also serves on the steering committee of Journalism That Matters-Pacific Northwest&#39;s civic new media project incubation group, called the News Collaboratory, and on the leadership team of JTM-PNW&#39;s Civic Communications Commons project. He graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Brandeis University with a B.A. in Sociology. Married for 23 years, he lives in West Seattle with his wife, two children and formerly feral cat. 

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