John Battelle
John Battelle | |
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Born | John Linwood Battelle November 4, 1965 (age 58)[1] Pasadena, California, U.S. |
Nationality | American |
Occupation(s) | Entrepreneur, author, journalist |
Spouse | Michelle Battelle |
Website | BattelleMedia.com |
John Linwood Battelle (born November 4, 1965)
Battelle is the chairman of Sovrn Holdings as well as board director at LiveRamp.[4] He taught at Columbia SIPA from 2018-2022, and is currently a Professor of Practice at Northeastern.
Career
Born in
Battelle was a visiting professor of journalism from 2001 to 2004 at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism[6] where he chaired the Bloomberg Chair on Business Reporting and co-chaired the Magazine Publishing program. His projects included The Big Story, an online magazine examining how the media covers major events[7] and China Digital Times, a bilingual news website aggregating news about China.[8]
In 2003, Battelle and publisher Tim O'Reilly founded the Web 2.0 Conference, which was later renamed the Web 2.0 Summit. Battelle called "this grandfather of Internet conferences" among his "proudest editorial works". During its lifetime, from 2004 to 2011, he was the conference's executive producer and program chair, and, with O'Reilly, its co-moderator.[9][10] He shut down the event after 2011.
In 2005, Battelle began focusing on how popular
Battelle sat on the board of the International Advertising Bureau[15] and has become a spokesman for what he calls "the Independent Web": blogs and other semi-professional websites beyond Facebook, Twitter, and Google. He has argued that marketers are themselves content creators, and their marketing campaigns should be rooted in "their own domain, independent from any platform other than the Internet itself".[16]
Writings
Battelle's 2005 book, The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture, described the history and impact of
Battelle maintains Searchblog, an ongoing daily site which covers the intersection of media, technology, and culture, with archives dating back to October 2003.
Accolades
Battelle was named a "Global Leader for Tomorrow" by the
Personal life
In a brief biographical entry, Battelle summarized his personal life as: "Father of three. Drums, mountain biking, yoga, drinking with friends, taking pictures, cursing at closed systems".[9] He lives in New York City.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d "Facebook: John L Battelle". Facebook. Retrieved January 24, 2012.
- ^ Swisher, Kara (October 4, 2011). "Federated Media Buys Lijit Networks". Wall Street Journal.
- ^ Griffith, Erin (January 28, 2014). "Exclusive: Federated Media sells off 'direct sales' biz". Forbes.. He later started both NewCo, an events platform for "new kinds of companies" with an "inside out" model where attendees visited startups at their headquarters, and The Recount, which was sold to The News Movement in 2023.
- ^ "About". SearchBlog. October 14, 2011.. He has taught at UC Berkeley, Columbia, and is now at Northeastern.
- ^ a b c "Bio: John Battelle". Federated Media Publishing. Retrieved January 25, 2012.
- ^ "Executive Profile: John Battelle". Bloomberg Businessweek. Archived from the original on June 5, 2013. Retrieved January 24, 2012.
- ^ "The Big Story". UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Retrieved January 24, 2012.
- ^ "CDT Sponsors". School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved January 24, 2012.
- ^ a b "About John". John Battelle's searchblog. October 14, 2011. Retrieved January 26, 2012.
- ^ Tsotsis, Alexa (November 17, 2010). "John Battelle On Why It's Not Web 3.0 And More (TCTV)". TechCrunch. Retrieved January 25, 2012.
- ^ "Bigger Bucks For The Blogosphere". Bloomberg Businessweek. February 12, 2007. Archived from the original on February 4, 2007. Retrieved January 26, 2012.
- ^ Craemer, Matthew (July 1, 2006). "The Innovators: John Battelle". Ad Age. Retrieved January 25, 2012.
- ^ Virzi, Anna Maria (January 25, 2012). "Top 20 U.S. Web Properties: Google Surges Past Yahoo". ClickZ. Retrieved January 27, 2012.
- ^ "The Top 50 Venture-Backed Companies". The Wall Street Journal. March 9, 2011. Retrieved January 25, 2012.
- ^ "UAB Board Members". International Advertising Bureau. Retrieved January 25, 2012.
- ^ Battelle, John (December 2011). "Face Time: John Battelle – building the conversation economy". McKinsey & Company. Retrieved January 26, 2012.
- ^ a b "Thomas Friedman wins the inaugural FT and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award". Financial Times. September 23, 2005. Retrieved January 27, 2012.
- ISBN 1-59184-088-0.
- PCWorld. Archived from the originalon October 20, 2010. Retrieved June 9, 2012.