Jay Rosen

New York University

Jay Rosen is a professor of journalism at New York University. Jay Rosen has been on the New York University faculty since 1986, and from 1999 to 2005 he served as chair of the journalism department. Rosen is the author of PressThink, a weblog about journalism and its ordeals (www.pressthink.org), which he introduced in September 2003. In June 2005, PressThink won the Reporters Without Borders 2005 Freedom Blog award for outstanding defense of free expression. In April 2007 PressThink recorded its two millionth visit. Jay Rosen of NYU and PressThink describes the ethic of the link in blogging and news media. Jay Rosen of NYU and PressThink argues that the Web is people, and describes the origins of the World Wide Web.