Jason Snell (born October 6, 1970 in Oakland, California) is an American writer, editor, and podcaster whose professional career has been split between covering technology—heavily focused on Apple Inc.'s Macintosh computers, iPhones, and services—and pop culture.

[6][7] He attended Revelle College at the University of California, San Diego, working for three years on the staff of the UCSD Guardian newspaper.

[8] In 1991, while at UCSD, Snell founded InterText, an early Internet-based magazine, which was originally distributed via FTP and e-mail in plain-text and PostScript formats.

[13] In 1994 Snell began working at the U.S. edition of MacUser magazine, beginning his career writing about the Macintosh computer.

Within a few years, he became the lead editor of Macworld, and eventually was promoted to a senior vice president at the magazine's publisher IDG.