Jeff Jarvis

journalist and author

Jeff Jarvis, author of The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet (Bloomsbury, 2023), Geeks Bearing Gifts: Imagining New Futures for News (CUNY Journalism Press, 2014), Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live (Simon & Schuster, 2011), What Would Google Do? (HarperCollins, 2009), blogs about media and news at Buzzmachine.com.

He was until December 2023 the Leonard Tow Professor of Journalism Innovation at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York, where he directed the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism. Until 2005, he was president and creative director of Advance.net, the online arm of Advance Publications. Prior to that, he was creator and founding editor of Entertainment Weekly; Sunday editor and associate publisher of the New York Daily News; TV critic for TV Guide and People; a columnist on the San Francisco Examiner; assistant city editor and reporter for the Chicago Tribune; reporter for Chicago Today.

Photo credit John Smock.

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Events in past editions
#IJF17 / 7 april 2017

How News Feed works

ijf17talk by Adam Mosseri. Moderator Jeff Jarvis. Adam Mosseri, VP of News Feed at Facebook, will share how his team thinks about improving News Feed so people see personally relevant stories every t...