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Marc Myers (born September 4, 1956) is an American journalist, author of five books and a regular contributor to ''The Wall Street Journal'', where he writes on music, the arts and celebrities. In 2007, he founded ''JazzWax'', a leading daily jazz blog that has won three Jazz Journalists Association "Blog of the Year" awards. Early life Myers was born in Manhattan and grew up in New York City and Cortlandt Manor, New York. He studied journalism at Northeastern University (undergraduate) and U.S. history at Columbia University (graduate). Career ''New York Times'' He began his writing career at ''The New York Times'' in the late 1970s as a college intern, joining the newspaper full-time in 1980 in the sports department. In 1985, he left to become an associate editor at ''Adweek'', where he wrote about advertising and marketing, helping to launch ''Brandweek''. For a time, he was business editor at ''Working Woman'' magazine, where his responsibilities included editing cover b ...
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Journalist
A journalist is an individual that collects/gathers information in form of text, audio, or pictures, processes them into a news-worthy form, and disseminates it to the public. The act or process mainly done by the journalist is called journalism. Roles Journalists can be broadcast, print, advertising, and public relations personnel, and, depending on the form of journalism, the term ''journalist'' may also include various categories of individuals as per the roles they play in the process. This includes reporters, correspondents, citizen journalists, editors, editorial-writers, columnists, and visual journalists, such as photojournalists (journalists who use the medium of photography). A reporter is a type of journalist who researches, writes and reports on information in order to present using sources. This may entail conducting interviews, information-gathering and/or writing articles. Reporters may split their time between working in a newsroom, or from home, and going ou ...
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