Jeff Jarvis is a professor at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, where he is director of the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism. He is 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 as well as the e-book Gutenberg the Geek.The creator and founding managing editor of Entertainment Weekly magazine, he has worked as a columnist, associate publisher, editor, and writer for a number of publications, including TV Guide, People, the San Francisco Examiner, the Chicago Tribune, and the New York Daily News.
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