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Jay RosenJay Rosen teaches journalism at New York University and is a former chair of the department. In 1999, Yale University Press published his book, What Are Journalists For? which is about the rise of the civic journalism movement in the 1990s. He is the author of PressThink, a weblog about journalism and its ordeals (www.pressthink.org), which he introduced in September 2003. On Twitter he is jayrosen_nyu. In July 2006 Rosen announced the debut NewAssignment.Net, his experimental site for pro-am, open source reporting projects. In 2007-08 he was the co-publisher, with Arianna Huffington, of OfftheBus.Net a colloboration between NewAssignment.Net and the Huffington Post.

In 2009 he founded the Studio 20 program at NYU, which is focused on innovation. He lives in Manhattan.