City University of New York
Director
CUNY Interactive Journalism Program
Jeff Jarvis, author of What Would Google Do?, blogs about media at the very popular Buzzmachine.com. A consulting editor and a partner at the news startup Daylife, he was until recently president and creative director of Advance Internet, the online arm of Advance Publications, where he developed the children's educational site, 'Yuckiest Site on the Internet,' with Susan Mernit. He also writes a new media column for The Guardian and is host of its Media Talk USA podcast. He gained national notoriety when he wrote about his negative experiences with Dell Computer's customer support system, and was one of the first to report from the site of the World Trade Center attacks, an experience that led to his new 'career' as a blogger. The creator and founding editor of Entertainment Weekly, Jarvis's career as a journalist includes positions with the New York Daily News, TV Guide, People, the San Francisco Examiner, the Chicago Tribune, and Chicago Today.
