Dean Rotbart is an award-winning former reporter and columnist with The Wall Street Journal, which nominated him for the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting.

He is the chairperson and editor-in-chief of the Business News Visionary Awards and News Luminary Awards programs. Previously, he published the TJFR Business News Reporter, a trade newsletter focused on influential business and financial news organizations.

Since June 2012, Rotbart has produced and hosted Monday Morning Radio, a popular weekly small business podcast.

He is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Rotbart, a native of Denver, Colorado, lives there along with his wife Talya, a children’s book author. They have two adult children.