Mark Glaser

Mark Glaser

About Me

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. He now edits the PBS MediaShift blog.
In the past he has written 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.

Blogs

http://www.pbs.org/mediashift http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2007/05/community_rulesdigg_users_show.html (Internet / Online Services / Consumer Software) http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2007/04/futuramahow_the_local_newsroom.html (Media / Entertainment) http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2007/04/digging_deeperfrienemy_google.html (Advertising / Marketing / Sales)

Areas of Interest

• Advertising / Marketing / Sales
• Consumer Services / Retail Industry
• Government / Politics / Global Issues
• Internet / Online Services / Consumer Software
• Media / Entertainment
• Telecom / Broadband / Wireless
• Journalism
• online marketing
• online advertising
• online video