Jason Chervokas
Education
Chervokas obtained his degree from Columbia College and the Columbia School of Journalism.
Career
Chervokas is the chief operating officer of New Paradigm Communications and political reporter for The Riverdale Press. He also served as venture partner at Primedia Ventures and taught journalism at Hunter College in New York City. Chervokas was co-host and co-producer of a nine-hour program covering George Clinton and compatriots called Funk Radio Thang.{{citation needed|date=June 2015}}
Awards and honors
Chervokas was the 1993 winner of the Emily Genauer Prize in Arts Criticism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism for his work on jazz.
In 1995, New York named him to their "New York Cyber Sixty".{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=beQCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA47|title=The New York Cyber Sixty|magazine=New York|date=13 November 1995|volume=28|issue=45|page=44}}
Works
Chervokas co-founded @NY in 1995 with Tom Watson, a pioneering Internet publishing venture and the first publication to chronicle Silicon Alley.{{cite book|title=Entrepreneurship in Emerging Regions Around the World|last=Arikan|first=Andac T.|publisher=Edward Elgar Publishing|year=2008|isbn=9781848441446|chapter=Institutional transformation during the emergence of New York's Silicon Alley|pages=101–102|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JGLWOVQ4Gu8C&pg=PA101}} Since its launch, @NY has grown to more than 6,000.{{cite news|title=Columnist Biographies|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/library/cyber/digimet/digimetbio.html|newspaper=New York Times|accessdate=18 May 2013}} He is the author of the Uniform Hieroglyphic blog, and the creator of the popular American roots music podcast, Down in the Flood. His work has appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Pulse!, Wired, The Absolute Sound, Goldmine, and Stereophile.{{cite web|title=SGTM: Famous Blue Jay Singers, I'm Bored For Canaan Land - Jason Chervokas |url=http://open.salon.com/blog/chervokas/2011/03/06/sgtm_famous_blue_jay_singers_im_bound_for_canaan_land |publisher=Open Salon |accessdate=18 May 2013 }}{{dead link|date=April 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
References
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External links
- [http://www.highwatereverywhere.com/ Down in the Flood]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20150131042605/http://www.uniformhieroglyphic.com/ Uniform Hieroglyphic]
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