(Vin Crosbie photo courtesy of Syracuse University)
Digital Deliverance LLC was founded in 1996 by its managing partner, Vin Crosbie. Folio, the trade journal of the American magazine industry, called him “the Practical Futurist.” Editor & Publisher magazine, the trade journal of the American newspaper industry, devoted the Overview chapter of executive research report Digital Delivery of News: A How-to Guide for Publishers to his work. Crosbie’s speech to the Broadcast Education Association session of National Association of Broadcasters annual conference was one of 24 orations (including speeches by Barak Obama, George W. Bush, Condolezza Rice, and Hilary Clinton) selected by a team of speech professors for publication in the reference bookRepresentative American Speeches 2004-2005.
Prior to Digital Deliverance, Crosbie was director of content development at Freemark Communications of Cambridge, Massachusetts, one of the companies credited with inventing free e-mail services (precursors of today’s HotMail and GMail). Prior to that, he was director of online partnership at News Corp.’s Internet subsidiary, Delphi Internet Services Corporation – the world’s first Internet Service Provider for consumers. Before working in the new-media, Crosbie was an executive with Reuters and the old United Press International, and a newspaper publisher, editor, and reporter. He is the fifth generation of his family to publish daily newspapers.
While working for Digital Deliverance, Crosbie has worked pro bono as the new-media columnist for the International Newspaper Marketing Association’s Ideas magazine; contributing editor for the American Press Institute’s NewsFuture newsletter; monthly columnist about paid online content for JupiterMedia’s ClickZ marketing website; and founding contributor to the Poynter Institute’s E-Media Tidbits group weblog. He regularly speaks at major media conference worldwide about what news media needs to do in order to survive and profit during the 21st Century. Crosbiewas a co-chairman of the publishing program at the Comdex conferences in Las Vegas during the 1990s; keynoted the Seybold Publishing Strategies conference in 2000l and was . He co-chairman and co-moderator of Ifra’s Beyond the Printed Word digital publishing conferencein Vienna.
Crosbie is also an adjunct professor of visual & interactive communications and also the senior consultant on executive education in New Media at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. From May to August this year, he will be teaching Digital Media Management, in the Postgraduate Diploma in Media Management program at the Sol Plaatje Institute for Media Leadership at Rhodes University in South Africa; the Social Media course in the Newhouse School’s masters degree executive education program in public relations; and the Knight Digital Media Center’s Knight Digital Media Center’s News Entrepreneur Boot Camp in Los Angeles.
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.