Jeff Jarvis (born July 15, 1954) is an American journalist, associate professor, public speaker and former television critic.

[2] Jarvis began his career in journalism in 1972 writing for the Addison Herald-Register, a local weekly newspaper at which he was the sole journalist.

[9] Jarvis is former Sunday editor and associate publisher of the New York Daily News and a former columnist for the San Francisco Examiner.

[5] Jarvis is the creator of the weblog BuzzMachine, which tracks developments in new media and chronicles some of the author's personal obsessions, such as the fortunes of radio host Howard Stern.

He gained national notoriety when he wrote about his negative experiences in dealing with Dell Computer's customer support system on the website.

Jarvis said of the book, "Just as I try to look admiringly from a distance at Google, I include anecdotes and examples from Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook and Craig Newmark at Craigslist and Jeff Bezos at Amazon.

[21] "I chose Jarvis because he epitomizes a certain type of 'thinkfluencer,' " Bradbury explains, "someone with an online influence massively greater than the thoughtfulness of his positions.