jdriscoll's blog

John S. (Jack) Driscoll has been Editor-in-Residence at the MIT Media Laboratory since 1995. Previously he was at the Boston Globe newspaper for nearly 40 years, seven as Editor.

His main areas of concentration have been in electronic publishing and community computing. He has acted as an adviser for the Melrose Mirror, a monthly published by the SilverStringers, a seniors group begun in 1996 in Melrose, Mass., and for the Junior Journal, a monthly written, edited and published by children from around the world between the ages of 10 and 18 for seven years. Both groups have become models for numerous online magazines published by seniors and teens in the US and abroad. In 2005 he founded Rye Reflections.

Driscoll has worked on a variety of projects at the Media Lab, including FishWrap, MUSIC, Salient Stills, Audio Notebook, NewsMaker and two MediaStreams undertakings in connection with the Gulf War and Boston's Central Artery.