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Jay Rosen

Jay Rosen (born May 5, 1956) is an associate professor of journalism at New York University. He is a contributor to De Correspondent and a member of the George Foster Peabody Awards Board of Directors.

Rosen received his undergraduate degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1979 and M.A. (1981) & Ph.D. (1986) degrees from the New York University Media Ecology Program (since subsumed into the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development's Department of Media, Culture, and Communication). Noted media theorist Neil Postman chaired Rosen's dissertation committee.

He joined New York University's Department of Journalism (now known as the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute) in 1986. From 1999 to 2005, he served as chair of the department.

He was one of the earliest advocates and supporters of citizen journalism, encouraging the press to take a more active interest in citizenship, improving public debate, and enhancing life. His book about the subject, What Are Journalists For?, was published in 1999. Rosen often is described in the media as an intellectual leader of the movement of public journalism.

Rosen frequently writes about issues in journalism and developments in the media. Media criticism and other articles by Rosen have appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Salon, Harper's Magazine, and The Nation. He is known for his use of terms such as, "view from nowhere", to criticize ideas about journalistic objectivity.

He authors the PressThink blog on "the fate of the press in a digital era and the challenges involved in rethinking what journalism is today". It won the Reporters Without Borders Freedom Blog award in 2005. Rosen is a semi-regular contributor to The Huffington Post.

In 1994, Rosen was named a fellow of the Shorenstein Center at Harvard University.

In July 2006, he announced a project, NewAssignment.net, linking professional journalists and internet users. The project has received contributions of $10,000 by the Sunlight Foundation, $10,000 by Craig Newmark, $75,000 from Cambrian House, and $100,000 by Reuters.

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