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Jeff Jarvis

Jeff Jarvis, a professor at the CUNY School of Journalism, is the founder of Buzzmachine.com and the author of the books What Would Google Do? and Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live. He was a creator and founding managing editor of Entertainment Weekly magazine and has written for TV Guide, People, the San Francisco Examiner, the Chicago Tribune, the New York Daily News, the Guardian, The New York Times, the New York Post, The Nation, Rolling Stone, and BusinessWeek. follow him on twitter: @jeffjarvis

circa 1955: Fireflies in a petri-dish. The flies caught by Baltimore children who are paid 25 cents per hundred, are used in research on the species. (Photo by Orlando /Three Lions/Getty Images)

If Journalism Were Run Like Science, Would It Be More Believable?

By Jeff Jarvis
Competing at the stands.

What if Content Could Come to You Rather Than Making You Go to Content?

By Jeff Jarvis
1926: American actor Neil Hamilton (1899-1984) as he appears in the silent film version of 'The Great Gatsby', based on the novel by F Scott Fitzgerald.. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Who is the Patron Saint of American Journalism?

By Jeff Jarvis
Journalists work in the main newsroom area of the new Al Jazeera America television broadcast studio on West 34th Street August 16, 2013 in New York. Al Jazeera America, which will launch on August 20, will have its headquarters in New York. AFP PHOTO/Stan HONDA (Photo credit should read STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images)

As Advertising Crumbles, Paywalls Will Not Come to the Rescue of the News Business

By Jeff Jarvis
Picture of a magnifying glass on the homepage of Facebook website in Spanish language, taken in Medellin, Antioquia department, Colombia on May 12, 2012. AFP PHOTO/Raul ARBOLEDA (Photo credit should read RAUL ARBOLEDA/AFP/Getty Images)

The Homepage Is Officially Dead

By Jeff Jarvis
Media video camera's are trained on the door of The Lindo Wing of Saint Mary's Hospital in Paddington, west London on July 21, 2013. There's still no sign of Britain's royal baby, even though the world's media have been camped for three weeks outside the London hospital where Prince William's wife Catherine is due to give birth. AFP PHOTO / ANDREW COWIE (Photo credit should read ANDREW COWIE/AFP/Getty Images)

Public Radio and TV Can Become So Much More Online Than it Has Been on The Air

By Jeff Jarvis
LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 10: A window cleaner walks past a billboard with a small portion of an old advert remaining on February 10, 2014 in London, England. (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

Advertising Doesn’t Have to Irritate, Intrude, Lie, Cheat and Generally Suck

By Jeff Jarvis
SAN FRANCISCO - OCTOBER 26: Newspapers are displayed at a newsstand October 26, 2009 in San Francisco, California. A report by the Audit Bureau of Circulations reveals that the average daily circulation of U.S. newspapers fell 10.6 percent in the six month period between April-September compared to one year ago. The San Francisco Chronicle had the largest decline with a drop of 25.8 percent to 251,782. The Wall Street Journal surpassed USA Today as the number one selling paper in the U.S. after USA Today had its circulation drop more than 17 percent to 1.90 million. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Newspaper Death Spiral Made Plain in One Chart

By Jeff Jarvis
TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY TUPAC POINTU A man holds a tablet and a smartphone showing a news website and a Twitter news thread in front of world newspapers on September 12, 2013 in Paris. AFP PHOTO / LIONEL BONAVENTURE (Photo credit should read LIONEL BONAVENTURE/AFP/Getty Images)

Members Only: Media Forced to Be—Gasp!—Useful to the Communities They Serve

By Jeff Jarvis
4th June 1975: The newsroom of the Evening Standard. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Amid Constant Layoffs, Journalists Should Stop Parroting Each Other

By Jeff Jarvis
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