Jeff Jarvis, Citizen Journalism Evangelist

Jeff Jarvis is one of the leading voices pushing for new media innovation after a long career in old media, including the Chicago Tribune, TV Guide, People, and Entertainment Weekly, which he founded. Jarvis is also an advisor to this project.

He blogs at BuzzMachine, and has helped develop newspaper Web sites as president of Advance.Net. He also consults for numerous new media efforts and currently directs the new media program at City University of New York’s graduate journalism school. He is a former consultant for About.com and a consulting editor of Daylife, a news startup.

In a 2004 interview, he said that “The means of media are now in the hands of the people.” In this BusinessWeek podcast, Jarvis argues that “grassroots movements can devise disaster-relief networks that respond faster than the government.”