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Betsy Rosenberg

Environmental
Journalist

Broadcast Pioneer

Betsy Rosenberg is an award-winning CBS Radio News journalist and longtime green advocate. She is best known for her pioneering environmental and climate-focused interviews which began in 1997. Over the years Rosenberg has hosted several radio, internet and video programs, including the current CODE GREEN! YouTube series.

Key highlights of Betsy’s media career

Decades of experience: Rosenberg has been producing green-themed content for 28 years, beginning with “TrashTalk” segments on KCBS Radio in San Francisco.

Successful interview format: Betsy has conducted more than 5,000 interviews with “solutionaries” on all shades of green topics: leading experts, politicians, activists, and innovators tackling the biggest environmental challenges of our time. From the start her focus has been to amplify & scale actionable solutions.

  • Current Platform: CODE GREEN!  Hundreds of interviews from past series are archived here www.codegreenmedia.com

  • Previous programs include:

    • EcoTalk: The nation’s first syndicated daily “green” talk show, broadcast on the Air America Radio network from 2004 to 2007.

    • The Green Front: An interview show that aired on VoiceAmerica.com and the Progressive Radio Network after 2009.

  • Advocacy: Betsy Rosenberg is also a public speaker on environmental issues. She is outspoken about the lack of mainstream media coverage on climate change and other existential threats and what that omission has cost us. She organized Don’t Be Fueled! Mothers for Clean and Safe Vehicles in 2002 and held Green Tea Parties during the Tea Party era. In 2007 Betsy was among the first trainees in Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project.

  • Legacy Media Background: Before leaving corporate media to specialize in environmental news Rosenberg was a reporter and anchor on CBS Radio for 20 years. She began her broadcast career with ABC Sports at the Winter Olympics.

  • Rosenberg has contributed chapters to 3 books including Climate Abandoned