Eric Rosenberg

At Johns Hopkins, Eric Rosenberg is a lecturer in the MA in Communication program. Rosenberg, who specializes in opinion writing at JHU, has worked for three-plus decades in news media and public affairs. At EMR Content + Communications, Inc., a boutique public affairs and public relations company, he advises clients with issues they have related to Congress and the Trump administration. Clients have included federal agency leaders, senior officials from trade and professional healthcare-related associations, and from the defense, education, and healthcare industries.

Rosenberg has researched and written commentary articles for clients, which have appeared in major U.S. media, including The Wall Street Journal, Forbes.com, The Washington Post, USA Today, CNN.com, Foxnews.com, Washington Times, Houston Chronicle, Sacramento Bee, Modesto Bee, San Antonio Express-News, The Denver Post, Indianapolis Star, Orlando Sentinel, Yahoo News, MSN New, and Industry Week magazine. His op-eds won a first-place award from the Public Relations Society of America.

In addition, he has written commentaries and speeches for officials as diverse as the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, foreign government representatives, and corporate CEOs. Rosenberg is the publisher and editor of Defenseopinion.com, a non-partisan outlet for commentary on national security, defense spending, and weapons systems.

Prior to EMR, he served as a senior vice president in the public affairs practice at Ogilvy Washington, where he was responsible for devising media strategies for clients with Congressional-related issues. Before joining Ogilvy, Rosenberg spent 23 years as a journalist, including 13 years as a national correspondent and the national op-ed editor in Washington, D.C., for Hearst Newspapers. There, he covered major national stories, including defense, science, health, politics, technology, and economic issues. An expert on national security, the defense industry, and federal procurement, he has won two first-place journalism awards from the National Press Club for his reporting and is a two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee.

Rosenberg holds a BA in English from the University of Hartford and an MBA from Johns Hopkins University.