Mark Glaser
Host & Editor
Mark Glaser is a longtime freelance journalist whose long and winding career include columns on hip-hop, reviews of videogames, travel stories, and humor columns that poked fun at the titans of technology. Most recently, he wrote a weekly column for USC Annenberg School of Communication's Online Journalism Review, and he still writes the OPA Intelligence Report email newsletter for the Online Publishers Association. Glaser has written essays for Harvard's Nieman Reports and the website for the Yale Center for Globalization.
In past lives, Glaser has written columns on the Internet and technology for the Los Angeles Times, CNET and HotWired, and has written features for the New York Times, Conde Nast Traveler, Entertainment Weekly, the San Jose Mercury News, and many other mainstream and sidestream publications. He was the lead writer for the Industry Standard's award-winning "Media Grok" daily email newsletter, and was named a finalist for a 2004 Online Journalism Award in the Online Commentary category for his OJR column.
Glaser received a Bachelor of Journalism and Bachelor of Arts in English at the University of Missouri at Columbia, and currently lives in San Francisco with his son, Julian. He is politically liberal, but tries to hew to moderate and unified views in his writing. He does not own specific stocks of publicly traded companies (only mutual funds), and tries to disclose all conflicts of interest.
Glaser has been a guest on NPR's "Talk of the Nation," KALW's "Media Roundtable" and TechTV's "Silicon Spin." He has given keynote speeches at Independent Television Service's (ITVS) Diversity Retreat and the Indiana Collegiate Press Association's annual meeting at Ball State University. He moderated a panel at the Media: Overseas Conversations IV conference in New York City. Other upcoming speaking engagements:
* Judge for Best of the Blogs Awards: Berlin, Germany, Fall 2008.
* Lecture Concert Series at Arkansas State University: Jonesboro, Ark., March 2008.
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