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Jeff Jarvis (born September 12, 1954) is an American journalist. He is the former television critic for TV Guide and People magazine, creator of Entertainment Weekly, Sunday editor and associate publisher of the New York Daily News, and a columnist on the San Francisco Examiner.

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Corporate punctuation finds its home

The obsession with the exact naming is for consistency in brand image. If being handled properly, it’s part of a larger effort within the company to control the perception of its brand, both externally and internally. Consistency, or at least the ...

From JEFF JARVIS, BuzzMachine,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: America Online

Murdoch madness

I’ve had a fair number of press calls on the Murdoch/Bing sillliness and here are the points I’ve been making: Were Bing to pay News Corp. to drop Google, it would be a double-play in Google’s favor: Microsoft would lose money and gain little. News ...

From JEFF JARVIS, BuzzMachine,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  News Corporation Limited,  Wikipedia,  Microsoft Corporation,  BBC

The half-life of news

At a Yale conference a week ago, Thomson Reuters CEO Tom Glocer talked about the life cycle of the value of news in his business. When a piece of financial news come out, it is at its most valuable for a very short time, he said. I asked him later how ...

From JEFF JARVIS, BuzzMachine,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Thomson Reuters,  Thomas H. Glocer,  Twitter Inc

On Murdoch & Google and news

But News Corp isn’t the only one making the mistake here. I think the mistake that Google has made in this – and I’m an admirer of Google, I wrote a book to that effect – but I think that Google thought that they could become friends with the ...

From JEFF JARVIS, NewsInnovation | CUNY GSJ,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  News Corporation Limited,  NPR

The opportunity of bankruptcy

Tweet: How bankruptcy can help a newspaper get theah from heah. Don’t squander it. ** I fear that Tribune Company – and other newspaper companies – will come out of bankruptcy having squandered the opportunity it presents to rebuild from the ground up. ...

From JEFF JARVIS, NewsInnovation | CUNY GSJ,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Tribune Company,  Dave Morgan,  Best Buy,  Chicago Sun-Times,  Craig Newmark

Newspapers want enemies, not friends

But News Corp isn’t the only one making the mistake here. I think the mistake that Google has made in this – and I’m an admirer of Google, I wrote a book to that effect – but I think that Google thought that they could become friends with the ...

From JEFF JARVIS, BuzzMachine,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  News Corporation Limited

Gained something in the translation

Tweet: A tweet paraphrased my link-economy line and showed me I’ve been saying more than I thought I have. ** In Twitter today, one @rpaskin paraphrased something I’ve been saying – and said again in my talk at Web 2.0 Expo Tuesday (generously covered ...

From JEFF JARVIS, BuzzMachine,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Google Inc.,  Jeff Jarvis,  Steven Brill

Nose, face, cut, spite: Blocking Google

There’s been a swine flu of stupidity spreading about the Murdoch meme of blocking Google from indexing a site’s content (to which Google always replies that you’ve always been able to do that with robots.txt – so go ahead if you want). I love that The ...

From JEFF JARVIS, BuzzMachine,  15 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Wikipedia,  News Corporation Limited,  Microsoft Corporation,  New York Times Company

WWGD? – The videos (6)

And they never end: Here’s the sixth day of videos from the aborted v-book edition of What Would Google Do?: A touch dated now, here’s a video I made on my Flip a year ago arguing that it was the Googley way to do video because it serves the creation ...

From JEFF JARVIS, BuzzMachine,  14 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.

Advice for German media

I have an op-ed in today’s Welt Kompakt newspaper in Germany giving my advice to a German mediasphere that I see becoming more protectionist. It’s not online (ironically) but so you can see the play, a PDF of it is here and here. This is my original ...

From JEFF JARVIS, NewsInnovation | CUNY GSJ,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Axel Springer,  Hubert Burda,  Rupert Murdoch,  City University of New York

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