Jeff Jarvis

Jeff Jarvis

Founder, BuzzMachine.com; Columnist, The Guardian

JEFF JARVIS, author of Gutenberg the Geek (Amazon Publishing), Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live (Simon & Schuster, 2011) and What Would Google Do? (HarperCollins 2009), blogs about media and news at Buzzmachine.com. He is associate professor and director of the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism.

He is consulting editor and a partner at Daylife, a news startup. He consults for media companies and is a public speaker. Until 2005, he was president and creative director of Advance.net, the online arm of Advance Publications. Prior to that, Jarvis was creator and founding editor of Entertainment Weekly; Sunday editor and associate publisher of the New York Daily News; TV critic for TV Guide and People; a columnist on the San Francisco Examiner; assistant city editor and reporter for the Chicago Tribune; reporter for Chicago Today.

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That, Jarvis says, is a scardy-cat way of looking at it.
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Barack Obama said he’d appoint one. Who would it be?
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Jeff Jarvis on the value of networks for the next generation of media.
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Jeff Jarvis searches for a new search engine.
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Newspapers are killing themselves by holding on to the past, says Jarvis.
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Toss the critics overboard and hire more investigative reporters, Jarvis says.