Jeff Jarvis
Journalist, professor and podcaster
Jeff Jarvis is an American journalist and academic who created Entertainment Weekly and advocates the Open Web. He wrote What Would Google Do?.
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American Born 1954 in Oak Park, United States
About Jeff Jarvis
Jeff Jarvis was born in 1954 and is an American journalist, public speaker and former television critic. He created Entertainment Weekly and served as its first editor, and he reviewed television for TV Guide and People. He was also president and creative director of Advance Net, the internet division of Condé Nast and Advance Local. Jarvis is Tow Professor of Journalism Innovation Emeritus at the City University of New York (CUNY) Newmark School of Journalism. He co-hosts two podcasts, This Week in Google and AI Inside, and writes a blog called Buzzmachine. He argues for the Open Web and for the benefits of living a more public life online. He has written six books, including What Would Google Do? and The Web We Weave.