Jeff Jarvis

Director of the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism

Jeff Jarvis is a national leader in the development of online news, blogging, and the investigation of new business models for news. He is director of the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at the City University of New York and serves as an executive committee member for the News Integrity Initiative. Funded in part by Facebook and Mozilla, the initiative supports news literacy and journalistic efforts around the world. Jarvis is also the author of several books, including “Geeks Bearing Gifts” and “What Would Google Do?” He blogs about media and news at Buzzmachine.com and cohosts the podcast This Week in Google.

Debates Featuring Jeff Jarvis

Is Social Media Good For Democracy?

With Franklin Foer, Jeff Jarvis, Roger McNamee, Emily Parker
June 26, 2018

By connecting people across the world for free, platforms like Twitter and Facebook set the stage for a promising digital revolution, providing tools that helped foster global friendships, break down long-standing barriers that kept people and ideas from being heard, and served as the ultimate democratizing force for information. Now, lawmakers in the U.S. and beyond are reeling with questions of how to prevent the spread of digital political propaganda and protect citizens’ personal privacy online. Critics argue that rather…

Is Social Media Good For Democracy?

With Franklin Foer, Jeff Jarvis, Roger McNamee, Emily Parker
June 26, 2018

Google Violates its Don't Be Evil Motto

With Esther Dyson, Jim Harper, Jeff Jarvis, Harry Lewis, Randal C. Picker, Siva Vaidhyanathan
November 18, 2008

Soon after Google was founded, it adopted a corporate motto: don’t be evil. Since then, it has been the dominant curator of digital information, cornered the market on private email, and made personal information publicly available in unprecedented fashion. While it provides critical social and economic services for free, it has amassed enormous power over information exchange around the world. Has Google violated its “don’t be evil” motto?

Google Violates its Don't Be Evil Motto

With Esther Dyson, Jim Harper, Jeff Jarvis, Harry Lewis, Randal C. Picker, Siva Vaidhyanathan
November 18, 2008

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Is Social Media Good For Democracy?

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Google Violates its Don't Be Evil Motto

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