Jeff Jarvis: Imagining the Future

JEFF JARVIS
Director of the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism

Jeff Jarvis, author of 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, whose investors include The New York Times Company, Getty, Craig Newmark, Dave Winer, Michael Arrington, Huffington Post’s Ken Lerer, and others. He has consulted for various media companies including for the New York Times Compnay at its About.com subsidiary until 2006 and currently consults for the Guardian 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.

Jarvis is also on the boards of Journal Register and PostMedia and am an advisor to Glam and is writing as a columnist for Media Guardian and am presenter of its MediaTalkUSA podcast.