Jeff Jarvis (born 1954) is an American journalist. He is the former television critic for TV Guide and People, creator of Entertainment Weekly, Sunday editor and associate publisher of the New York Daily News, and a columnist on the San Francisco Examiner. TV Guide is the name of two North American weekly magazines about television programming, one in the United States and one in Canada. ... June 17, 2005 cover of Entertainment Weekly, featuring actor Tom Cruise Entertainment Weekly is a magazine published by Time Warner in the United States which is dedicated to the world of celebrity and popular culture. ... New York Daily News Building, Raymond Hood, architect, rendering by Hugh Ferriss The New York Daily News is one of the largest newspapers in the United States with a circulation well over 700,000. ... The San Francisco Examiner is a daily newspaper in San Francisco, California, where it has been published continuously since 1865, beginning with the name The Daily Examiner. ...

Jeff Jarvis on MSNBC

He was until recently president & creative director of Advance.net, the online arm of Advance Publications, where he developed the children's educational site Yuckiest Site on the Internet with Susan Mernit. Image File history File links Jarvis. ... Image File history File links Jarvis. ... Advance Publications is owned by the descendants of Samuel I. Newhouse. ... Susan Mernit. ...

Jarvis consults for Advance and The New York Times Company at About.com, where he works on content development and strategy. In 2006 he will become associate professor at City University of New York's Graduate School of Journalism, directing its new media program. He has a fortnightly column in British newspaper The Guardian's MediaGuardian supplement. The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) is an American media company best known as the publisher of its namesake, The New York Times. ... About. ... The City University of New York (CUNY; acronym usually pronounced kyoo-nee or coo-nee), located in New York City, is the largest urban university in the United States, with more than 198,000 enrolled in degree programs, about 20,000 enrolled in non-degree programs and more than 200... The Guardian is a British newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. ...

In 1974 Jarvis was an undergraduate at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University when he was hired by The Chicago Tribune. The Medill School of Journalism, one of the colleges at Northwestern University, is one of the foremost journalism schools in the United States. ... Northwestern University is a private, coeducational, non-sectarian university, located in Evanston, Illinois and Chicago, Illinois. ... The Chicago Tribune, formerly self-styled as the Worlds Greatest Newspaper, remains one of the principal daily newspapers of the midwestern United States. ...

Jarvis is also the creator of the popular weblog BuzzMachine. He gained national notoriety when he blogged his negative experiences in dealing with Dell Computer's customer support system. Jarvis' son also runs a weblog at jakejarvis.com. A weblog (now more commonly known as a blog) is a web-based publication consisting primarily of periodic articles (normally, but not always, in reverse chronological order). ... A blog is a website in which items are posted on a regular basis and displayed in reverse chronological order. ... Dell, Inc. ... A weblog (now more commonly known as a blog) is a web-based publication consisting primarily of periodic articles (normally, but not always, in reverse chronological order). ...

Jarvis describes himself as "a liberal: a centrist leaning left", claiming to have voted for Democrats in most elections. Nonetheless, he notes that he upsets some Democrats for not always agreeing with them and for linking to those with whom they disagree. Jarvis says that is why he likes the blogosphere so much: because it allows him to talk with people whose opinions don’t align with his views. Look up liberal on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Liberal may refer to: Politics: Liberalism American liberalism, a political trend in the USA Political progressivism, a political ideology that is for change, often associated with liberal movements Liberty, the condition of being free from control or restrictions Liberal Party, members of... In politics, centrism usually refers to the political ideal of promoting moderate policies which land in the middle ground between different political extremes. ... It has been suggested that Democratic presidents be merged into this article or section. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Weblog. ...

Jarvis also describes himself as "a post-9/11 hawk, having survived the attacks on the World Trade Center". The date that commonly refers to the attacks on United States citizens on September 11, 2001 (see the September 11, 2001 Attacks). ... The World Trade Center in New York City (sometimes informally referred to as the WTC) was a complex of seven buildings designed by Japanese-American architect Minoru Yamasaki and leased by Larry Silverstein from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey around a central plaza, near the south...

External links

• BuzzMachine.com
• BuzzMachine's Dell Archives: Dell Hell
• BuzzMachine post announcing appointment at City University of New York
• Jarvis' audio account of his personal experience of the attack on the World Trade Center
• The World Trade Center Tragedy: An eyewitness account, Jarvis' written account of 9/11
• BusinessWeek podcast with Jarvis, about Recovery 2.0, September 2005
• Jeff Jarvis, On the Inside, Blogging Out, Washington Post article, May 2005
• Corante.com interview with Jarvis in The Future of Digital Media series, November 2004