Newhouse School of Communications

Vin Crosbie
Adjunct, VIC; Senior Consultant on Executive Education for New Media
New Media

Office: Newhouse 3 Rm. 240
Telephone: 443-7221
Email: vbcrosbi@syr.edu
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When this year the Congressional Research Service briefed members of the United States Congress prior to that legislative body holding hearings about crisis in the newspaper industry, the first person, as well as the only academic, it quoted was Vin Crosbie (the second person was Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi).

Folio, the trade journal of the American magazine industry, has termed Crosbie “the Practical Futurist.” Editor & Publisher magazine, the trade journal of the U.S. newspaper industry, devoted the Overview chapter of executive research report Digital Delivery of News: A How-to Guide for Publishers to his work. And Crosbie's address to the Broadcast Education Association session of National Association of Broadcasters annual conference was one of 24 orations (including oratory 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.

Each semester, Professor Crosbie teaches the Newhouse School's media management course New Media Business. He also formulates executive education in New Media courses for the school and advise the school about keeping its curriculat up-to-date regarding New Media and technological changes. During the break between Syracuse's Spring and Fall semesters this year, he also taught part of the Knight Digital Media Center’s News Entrepreneur Boot Camp at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business and taught a post-graduate and executive courses in Digital Media Management and the Essentials of Managing Newspaper Convergence at Rhodes University in South Africa.

Since 1996, Crosbie also has been managing partner of Digital Deliverance LLC, a Greenwich, Connecticut, firm that provides media companies with strategies how to adapt to New Media. Prior to that, he was an executive with News Corporation, Reuters, and United Press International, and a newspaper editor and reporter. He is the fifth generation of his family in the news business.

Crosbie's also 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; fortnightly columnist about online publishing for the ClickZ marketing website; and a founding contributor to the Poynter Institute’s E-Media Tidbits group weblog.

He regularly speaks at media conference worldwide about what tje news industry needs to do in order to survive and profit during the 21st Century. Crosbie was a co-chairman of the publishing program at the Comdex conferences in Las Vegas during the 1990s; keynoted the Seybold Publishing Strategies conference in 2000 and was co-chairman and co-moderator of Ifra’s Beyond the Printed Word digital publishing conference during 2006 in Vienna.

An experienced mountaineer with ascents in the Alps, North America, and Latin America, Crosbie has held a commercial guide certification from the U.S. National Forest Service and taught above-treeline travel and Nordic skiing for the Appalachian Mountain Club’s headquarters chapter in Boston. He lives in Syracuse, New York. You can follow him on Twitter.

Expertise:

• Blogs and Organizational Trust
• Interactive Advertising and Marketing
• Interactive Design
• Interactive Storytelling
• Internet
• Internet Advertising
• Internet Design
• New Media and Politics
• New Technology (relating to Web design and use)
• Newspaper Management
• Newspapers
• Theories of Communication
• Writing for New Media
• Designing and Developing New Media