Jack Driscoll
COMMUNITY
Jack Driscoll
John S. (Jack) Driscoll has been an Adviser for C4FCM and was Editor-in-Residence at the MIT Media Laboratory for 13 years. 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. In 2005 he founded Rye Reflections. He is author of "Couch Potatoes Sprout: The Rise of Online Community Journalism.
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.