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A new plan from Facebook encourages everyone on the social network to advertise their donor status on their pages, along with their birth dates and schools. Could the plan be a slippery slope linking medical information and social media? Jeff Jarvis is professor of journalism at City University of New York. Art Caplan is a professor of bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. 

The man behind buzzmachine.com, professor at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and author of, Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live, Jeff Jarvis, continues to explore the way the internet affects our lives.

British Prime Minister David Cameron says his government will look into a possible crackdown on social media, after citizens used websites like Twitter as an organizing tool for the riots that shook cities across the U.K. earlier this week. Free speech advocates have criticized the idea, saying it's reminiscent of the social media shutdowns practiced by autocrats like former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Are Cameron and Mubarak suddenly brothers in censorship? Or is this a viable method for preventing violence?

With lawmakers calling for investigations into News Corporation here in the US, Jake Bernstein, business and financial reporter for ProPublica, and Jeff Jarvis, the man behind buzzmachine.com, professor at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, and author of What Would Google Do?, look at what laws Murdoch may have violated here.

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AOL is set to acquire the Huffington Post and make Arianna Huffington head of all editorial content for the company. Jeff Jarvis, Author of the blog BuzzMachine and professor at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, Ana Marie Cox, GQ Washington Correspondent and founder of the Wonkette blog, and Betsy Morgan, former CEO of The Huffington Post and current President of The Blaze, discuss what this move means for the the future of the liberal online community, and the media landscape in general.

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Google has announced significant changes to the company's executive line-up, as chief executive Eric Schmidt hands over his management role to Google co-founder Larry Page. The changes are set to take effect on April 4th, and it is unclear if they are permanent. Jeff Jarvis is the author of What Would Google Do? He is also a professor at the CUNY graduate school of journalism. 

Facebook executives are preparing for a ‘privacy summit’ to discuss the site’s controversial new default privacy settings (which do little to protect users’ privacy). But in a world of over-sharing online, does privacy even matter anymore? And have our notions of public and private changed so dramatically that we couldn’t reverse things if we wanted to?

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Millions of American men are tested every year for prostate cancer, but the blood test used for screening isn’t completely reliable. Now, the American Cancer Society says there's a chance the screenings can do more harm than good. What are men at risk of prostate cancer supposed to do?

Two news stories today may mean that the internet is getting a little less open. Julia Angwinwrote in the Wall St. Journal today about how the number of volunteer editors on Wikipedia has dropped precipitously over the past year. Then, Jeff Jarvis of Buzzmachine.com discusses reports that ...

Tweets from inside Fort Hood were used in news reports about the shooting there last week. But some of the tweets turned out to detail false information. Paul Carr, columnist for TechCrunch and author of Bringing Nothing To The Party, and Jeff Jarvis, professor at the CUNY Graduate ...

Jeff Jarvis, writer of the blog Buzzmachine.com, professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York and author of What Would Google Do?, and Siva Vaidhyanathan, associate professor of media studies and law at the University of Virginia and ...

Jeff Jarvis, writer of the blog Buzzmachine.com, professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York and author of What Would Google Do?, and Siva Vaidhyanathan, associate professor of media studies and law at the University of Virginia and ...

Print journalism is struggling to stay afloat and some outlets will soon ask readers to pay for content. Hearst Corporation has announced it will launch a wireless e-reader this year that will allow its owners to read magazines and newspapers electronically—for a fee. But with so many options out there, are readers willing to pay? To help answer that, we’re here with Jeff Jarvis, author of the book, What Would Google Do, and a professor of journalism at the City University of New York.

Newspapers are in crisis. More and more readers are migrating to the web, even as revenue from online ads plummets. Suggestions for how the industry can stay alive abound, but so far they're just that--suggestions. Jeff Jarvis, a professor at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism who writes about media at the Buzzmachine blog, joins The Takeaway to share his ideas for how newspapers must evolve to survive.

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Jeff Jarvis writes the blog Buzzmachine.com, teaches at City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism, and is the author of What Would Google Do? (Collins Business, 2009). He talks about new media.

NewsCorps is close to sealing the deal with the Tribune Company for its struggling Newsday publication. Jeff Jarvis , blogger at Buzz Machine, discusses the balance between free press and corporate control.