Howard Rosenberg

Howard Anthony Rosenberg (born June 10, 1938) is an American television critic, author, and educator. He worked at The Louisville Times from 1968 through 1978 and then worked at the Los Angeles Times from 1978 to 2003, where he won a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. Rosenberg coined the term mixed martial arts, or MMA, in his review of the first Ultimate Fighting Championship event UFC 1 in Los Angeles Times on November 15, 1993.

Personal life Howard Rosenberg was born in Kansas City, Missouri.

Career Rosenberg began his journalism career in Minnesota in 1965. He was named its television critic in 1970, and moved to the Los Angeles Times in 1978.

In 1991, Rosenberg became an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California. In 2012, he taught classes on news ethics at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and on television at the School of Cinematic Arts. He has also written mystery novels.