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Jeff Jarvis
Journalist & Media Expert
Jeff Jarvis
Journalist & Media Expert
Biography
Jeff Jarvis is the Leonard Tow Professor of Journalism Innovation and director of the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York. There he created new degrees and programs in Entrepreneurial Journalism, Social Journalism, and News Innovation and Leadership.
He also started the News Integrity Initiative and Quality News Signals Aggregator. His work has been funded by Knight, Tow, Craig Newmark, Facebook, Ford, MacArthur, and McCormick. He is the author of Geeks Bearing Gifts, Public Parts, What Would Google Do?, and Gutenberg the Geek and is cohost of the podcast “This Week in Google.”
Previously, he was president and creative director of Advance.net, the online arm of Advance Publications (including Condé Nast and Newhouse Newspapers); creator and founding editor of Entertainment Weekly; Sunday editor and associate publisher of the New York Daily News; TV critic of TV Guide and People magazines; a columnist for the San Francisco Examiner; and an editor for the Chicago Tribune.
Speaker Videos
How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work & Live
The Consumer's New Power
Collaborating with the Customer
Speech Topics
Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work & Live
It’s a new age. Every day, millions of people share billions of personal thoughts on Facebook, Twitter, and other social networking sites. But with every new technology, people find more reason to worry about privacy. In this optimistic talk, Jeff Jarvis examines the tension between privacy and publicness that is transforming how we form communities, create identities, do business, and live our lives.
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