Jeff Jarvis
Visiting Professor
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Jeff Jarvis is a national leader in the development of online news, blogging, the
investigation of new business models for news, and the teaching of entrepreneurial
and engagement journalism.
At the SoCJ, Jarvis explores the intersections of communication, media, and technology with an emphasis on how emerging technologies including artificial intelligence are impacting how people understand and communicate with each other. He works collaboratively with other university faculty across disciplines, as well as with external industry partners.
He is the author of six books: “The Web We Weave: Why We Must Reclaim the Internet from Moguls, Misanthropes, and Moral Panic,” “The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and its Lessons for the Age of the Internet,” “Magazine” (Part of Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons series), “Geeks Bearing Gifts: Imagining New Futures for News,” “Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way we Work and Live,” and “What Would Google Do?” He is writing a next book, a history of the Linotype as the machine that enabled the birth of mass media. He also writes an influential blog, Buzzmachine.com, where he advocates for a new model of journalism equipped for an internet-driven society, and cohosts the podcasts “This Week in Google” and “AI Inside.”
In his journalism career, Jarvis was president and creative director of Advance.net, the online arm of Advance Publications; Sunday editor and associate publisher of the New York Daily News; creator and founding managing editor of Entertainment Weekly magazine; TV critic of TV Guide and People; and a columnist and editor at the San Francisco Examiner and Chicago Tribune.
He also is an adviser to the Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University in New Jersey. He is the emeritus Leonard Tow professor of journalism innovation at the City University’s Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, where he also directed the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism. He has a bachelor’s in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.