Jeff Howe
Journalist and Wired contributing editor
Jeff Howe is a journalist who coined the term crowdsourcing in a 2006 Wired article. He co-wrote Whiplash with Joi Ito.
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About Jeff Howe
Jeff Howe is a longtime contributing editor at Wired magazine. His 2006 article there introduced the word crowdsourcing, and in 2008 he followed it with a book, Crowdsourcing: How the Power of the Crowd is Driving the Future of Business, which has been translated into ten languages. Earlier in his career he worked as a senior editor at Inside.com and as a writer for the Village Voice. His reporting has also appeared in Time, The Washington Post and The New York Times, among other publications. Howe wrote Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future with Joi Ito, director of the MIT Media Lab. He has worked as an assistant professor at Northeastern University, and he was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in the 2009-2010 academic year.