Jeff Jarvis



Profile:
Full name: Jeff Jarvis

Area of interest: New Media

Journals: The Guardian

Email: [mailto:jeff@buzzmachine.com jeff@buzzmachine.com]

Website: Media Guardian.co / Jeff Jarvis

Blog: Buzzmachine

Agent:

Networks: Facebook page



Biography:
Education: Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University

Career: Addison Herald-Register: all roles; Chicago Today: reporter; Chicago Tribune: reporter, assistant city editor; San Francisco Examiner: columnist; TV Guide and People: TV critic; New York Daily News: associate publisher and Sunday editor; Entertainment Weekly: creator and founding editor; Advance.net (part of Advance Publications): creative director and president (until 2005)

Current position/role: New Media columnist/blogger


 * also writes/has written for:San Francisco Examiner: columnist

Other roles: Consulting editor of Daylife (news startup)

Other activities: Associate professor and director, Interactive Journalism program, City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism 2006-current

Disclosures: see buzzmachine.com: About Me

Viewpoints/Insight:
 * Corante.com: The Future of Digital Media interview, 8th November 2004
 * Howard Kurtz: Jeff Jarvis, On the Inside Blogging Out Washington Post, 30th May 2005

TV/Radio: Frequent appearances on U.S. TV and radio
 * You Tube: Jeff Jarvis channel;

Controversy/Criticism:

Awards/Honours:

Other:
 * Buzzmachine.com: Personal experience of attack on the World Trade Center (audio)
 * tvheaven.com:The World Trade Center Tragedy: An eyewitness account, (written account)



Books & Debate:


Latest work: What would Google do? OCLC 267163913, 2009 (Amazon.co: click to look inside)

Buzzmachine: [http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/03/19/wwgd-the-book/ WWGD? - What Would Google Do?]

AdHocnium: My Interview with Jeff Jarvis on “What Would Google Do?” (VIDEO)

Speaking/Appearances:

Current debate: 
 * The Virginia Tech tragedy debate: Were reporters right to solicit information from students' web pages? Yes, says Guardian feature writer Patrick Barkham; no, argues journalism professor Jeff Jarvis, The Guardian, 23rd April 2007
 * Jeff Jarvis v Michael Tomasky - Should the internet's new breed of 'citizen journalists' have the responsibilities of journalists or the rights of citizens? - The Guardian, 24th April 2008 (profile page: Michael Tomasky)

The Guardian:

 * occasional contributor to Comment is free... blog

Column remit: New Media

Section: Monday media section

Role: Columnist

Pen-name:

Email: [mailto:jeff@buzzmachine.com jeff@buzzmachine.com]

Website: Media Guardian.co / Jeff Jarvis

Commissioning editor:

Day published: Monday

Regularity: Fortnightly

Column format:

Average length:



Articles: 2010

 * cyberspace bill of rights'' - As Google has shown in its confrontation with China, we don't need government in cyberspace – we need freedom - 30th March
 * Murdoch's pathetic paywall'' - So Murdoch has decided to milk his dying cash cow dry, one pound at a time, and leave the future to the rest of us. Poor guy - 27th March
 * Corp is foolish to block linking'' - Linking to public internet sites is right for democracy and journalism and News Corporation is wrong to impede it - 18th January
 * Internet media continue to evolve, old media flirt with extinction'' - The age of creation on the web will begin to yield to an age of curation - 4th January



Articles: 2009

 * I'm blogging about my cancer'' - When I got my diagnosis, my first instinct was to get the news out on the web. Within seconds, advice, support, even jokes were pouring in - 12th August
 * Murdoch's move to charge for content opens doors for competitors'' - Newspapers have had 15 years since the launch of the internet browser to reimagine and rebuild themselves for the reality of the post-Gutenberg age. But they didn't - 10th August
 * matters so much more than what delivers it'' - News publishers hope to prolong brand loyalty by making their content available on flat electronic media, but it's a faint hope - 1st June
 * Talk USA: Why Warren Buffett refuses to invest in newspapers'' - The billionaire financier says he wouldn't buy a newspaper 'at any price'. But are magazines doomed as well? - 11th May
 * one bites the dust'' - On the heels of launching its resurrected Wired UK edition, Condé Nast last week killed its expensive, high-stakes and high-profile business magazine Portfolio in the US. Does this mean that magazines are next to suffer the misfortunes of newspapers? - 4th May
 * friend or foe?'' - with Maureen Dowd - 20th April
 * Huffington is saving journalism'' - The online comment-led Huffington Post has announced a major new funding programme for investigative journalism - 6th April
 * the geeks save us?'' - Wired rises again, this as a sign of hope, not for the magazine industry, but for the economy and even society - 23rd March
 * Hyperlocal: the elusive golden fleece - Digital media: New York Times enlists the community to help blog the local news - 16th March 2009
 * News sites should quit moaning about payment and just gopher it - Digital media: The notion of newspapers charging for content online keeps popping its nose up out of the dirt - 23rd February 2009
 * foresight of Google'' - Digital media: What can other companies and governments learn from the one company that has succeeded in the internet age? - 9th February 2009
 * models for the future - but will they pay?'' - Digital media: There is no more urgent need in journalism than paying for it - 26th January 2009
 * in the making in LA as online ads hit target'' - Digital media: The editor of the Los Angeles Times says the paper's online advertising revenue is now sufficient to cover the Times's entire editorial payroll, print and online - 12th January 2009



Articles: 2008

 * there a market for quality journalism? Yes!'' - Digital media: who or what is responsible for the death of profitable journalism? - 15th December 2008
 * Mumbai, witnesses are writing the news'' - Digital media: Moments after the terrorist attacks on Mumbai began Twitter exploded with messages - 1st December 2008
 * Why Google defines the new digital economy - We are seeing the dawn of a new economy - one best viewed and understood through the lens of Google - 17th November 2008
 * There is life after paper - Don't mourn the death of the Christian Science Monitor's daily print edition. Celebrate the birth of what comes next - 29th October 2008
 * end of the story - as we know it'' - Digital media: In the crush of news around the financial crisis it occurred to me that the basic building block of journalism, the article, is proving inadequate - 27th October 2008
 * must take responsibility'' - Digital media: Three newsmen I respect have taken it upon themselves to absolve journalists of responsibility for the fall of newspapers. I must respectfully if bluntly disagree - 13th October 2008
 * junk the myths and celebrate what we've got'' - Digital media: It never fails. I'll be talking about the amazing opportunities of the internet age and someone will say, 'Yes, but there are inaccuracies on the internet.' - 29th September 2008
 * Google by competing with it rather than feeding it'' - 15th September 2008
 * time journalism broke with conventions'' - Digital media: For the third campaign in a row, news organisations have assigned 15,000 journalists to each of the US parties' conventions - 1st September 2008
 * editors a luxury that we can do without?'' - Digital media - 18th August 2008
 * Coelho finds the perfect alchemy of print and digital - 4th August 2008
 * The host with the most - Digital media: Newspapers should not be in manufacturing and distribution or the technology business - they're bad at it - 21st July 2008
 * AP took it to the wire but needs to rethink its role - 30th June 2008
 * Newsrooms are entering a hub-and-spoke future - In London's news industry, you're nobody if you don't have a new newsroom and a reorganisation to go with it - 16th June 2008
 * In the Google age, openness is a virtue - Facebook is standing at a critical juncture. If it turns one way, it could reach its grandest ambition - to be the Google of the people - 2nd June 2008
 * Why Twitter is the canary in the news coalmine - 19th May 2008
 * Introducing 'the social media sommelier' who had big dreams and a webcam - 5th May 2008
 * One shot of coffee and two shots at changing the way Starbucks is run - 21st April 2008
 * Let's stop reaching eyeballs and start reaching brains - We are about to witness a battle between online ad networks and big media brands - 24th March 2008
 * A smothering embrace - On AOL's past form, its purchase of Bebo may prove the kiss of death for a once vibrant, innovative social networking site - 13th March 2008 (Comment is free...)
 * Blogs take roboreporters to a more human level - In a time of blogs with their ethic of transparency, how long can journalists continue to hide their opinions? - 10th March 2008
 * Pity the big, bad wolf - The European commission's record fine on Microsoft is a clear case of kicking a guy when he's down - 27th February 2008 (Comment is free...)
 * Why short is tweet for the blogging - When I first used Twitter I thought it was silly, but it is an important step in the rise of blogging - 25th February 2008
 * What were they thinking? - US elections 08: The New York Times acts like a scandal-sheet in hinting that John McCain had an affair - and then acts surprised when readers notice - 25th February 2008 (Comment is free...)
 * The objectivity myth - US elections 2008: The media's obvious love of Barack Obama is one more reason reporters should disclose their political leanings - 19th February 2008 (Comment is free...)
 * Forget shorthand - a camera phone is the new tool of the journalist's trade - 11th February 2008
 * Big won't win - Microsoft's proposed purchase of Yahoo is really about old models of media and technology huddling together against the cold wind of the new - 1st February 2008 (Comment is free...)
 * The social whirl driving the development of search - 28th January 2008
 * Clinton or Obama - who clicks with the voters? - 21st January 2008
 * The internet primary - US elections 2008: Is Facebook about to elect a president? - 9th January 2008 (Comment is free...)
 * The big challenge for the next generation of hacks - 7th January 2008



Articles: 2007

 * Facebook climbs the social scale - 17th December 2007
 * To grow into the future media need a group hug - 19th November 2007
 * Chaos theory: advertising cash will soon decrease - 5th November 2007
 * The pro-am approach to news gathering - 22nd October 2007
 * The iPod moment has arrived for newspapers - 8th October 2007
 * Clicks and links will bring all the walls tumbling down - 24th September 2007
 * The real reason for Google's news-wire deal - 10th September 2007
 * Why the obnoxious guy with the tiny camera makes the news - 27th August 2007
 * Journalists need to make web innovation pay - 13th August 2007
 * Puppets aside, YouTube is the best forum for debate - 30th July 2007
 * Yes, news-gathering is now purse-sized - 16th July 2007
 * How Yahoo! got bogged down in peanut butter - 25th June 2007
 * Media owners: ask not what Facebook can do for you... - 11th June 2007
 * Home pages, such a quaint old-fashioned notion - 28th May 2007
 * The thoroughly modern interview rewrites the rules - 14th May 2007
 * Hacks should do what they do best and link to the rest - 30th April 2007
 * Were reporters right to solicit information from students' web pages? - 23rd April 2007
 * I've had enough of all this blog bigotry - 16th April 2007
 * What's news about a room? - 2nd April 2007
 * The politics behind the tiny TV revolution - 19th March 2007
 * What the news business needs most today - 5th March 2007
 * Why clips on YouTube are good for television - 19th February 2007
 * Why YouTube gets my vote for political punditry - 5th February 2007
 * Size doesn't matter - it's who views your content - 15th January 2007



Links:

 * Wikipedia biog.