Matthew Rothenberg (born February 16, 1965) is an American journalist and co-author of "You're Better Than Your Job Search" with

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CEO Marc Cenedella. Rothenberg, the son of American poet

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, worked at ''

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'' in San Francisco, where he was reportedly author of the magazine's "

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'' magazine and editorial director at Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S. and currently works as editor-in-chief at TheLadders, a leading site for senior-level job seekers. Rothenberg is credited as being the first journalist to report the existence of the

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, writing in November, 2002 that the company was working on a “large iPod with no keyboard.” He had previously broken the news that Apple would release a version of its Mac OS X for the Intel platform and Adobe’s development of

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, then known by the name, “K2.” In addition to his work at TheLadders, Rothenberg is a contributing blogger to

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"Top 10 Cities for High-End Job Seekers" ''

''. 20 August 2010. Retrieved on 2010-12-8. Rothenberg is also the founder of Che Underground: The Blog, which documents San Diego's underground music scene of the late '70s and early '80s.

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