About the Author
Cyrus Farivar
سیروس فریور
English: [suh-ROOS FAR-ih-var]
Persian: [see-ROOS-eh fàr-ee-VÀR]
Freelance Technology Journalist
Freelance Radio Reporter/Producer
Author, "The Internet of Elsewhere"
cfarivar [at] cfarivar [dot] org
Current location: Bonn, GermanyTwitter
Columbia Archive
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Cyrus in NYC Aug 13-Sept 3
Posted on August 12, 2009 | No CommentsI’ve announced this in other places, but I don’t think here on the blog. I’ll be teaching a crash course in radio for a few weeks at my alma mater, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism starting next week. My time there is booking up... -
Big ups to Jaimal Yogis!
Posted on May 1, 2009 | No CommentsMy Columbia classmate and pal Jaimal Yogis’ first book, Saltwater Buddha is out today. It’s been met with great reviews thus far. He’s been hit by the Monterey Herald, the San Francisco Chronicle, and San Francisco magazine. Congrats, Jaimal! -
Wednesday Update
Posted on February 20, 2008 | No CommentsHere’s what I’m reading today: Iranian fundamentalists preach in cyberspace (The Guardian Newsblog) DC’s Best Embassies (Washingtonian) The Legend of Barack Obama (Washingtonian) The Demise of Hyphy (SF Weekly) Oops: Columbia j-school dean sends self-evaluation to class (Romenesko) Here’s what I did today: Cover the... -
Cops seek torturer of Ivy League grad student
Posted on April 19, 2007 | No CommentsAP: NEW YORK (AP) — It was an ordeal that lasted 19 hours. In that span, a man bound a Columbia University graduate student in her apartment, raped her, doused her with hot water and bleach, slit her eyelids and finally set a fire before... -
NYT: Cheating on an Ethics Test? It’s ‘Topic A’ at Columbia
Posted on December 1, 2006 | 1 CommentThe New York Times: Cheating is not unheard of on university campuses. But cheating on an open-book, take-home exam in a pass-fail course seems odd, and all the more so in a course about ethics. Yet Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism is looking into whether... -
Dave Cuomo plays two nights in the Bay Area!
Posted on October 16, 2006 | No CommentsWhen I lived in New York, I was invited to get cheap drinks and attend some great live music once a week at The Underground Lounge by my good buddy and Columbia cohort Jennifer Weiss. She had a regular gig rockin’ the back room on... -
$20 says Nick Lemann doesn’t take this advice
Posted on September 27, 2006 | No CommentsThis just came over the J-School ’05 email listserv: good ol’ j-school’s gonna raise $100 million: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/publications/journalism/ here’s what the yale school of music did with $100 million: http://www.yale.edu/opa/newsr/05-11-02-02.all.html just saying, richard -
Sam Gustin on Google
Posted on September 19, 2006 | No CommentsA Columbia cohort of mine, Sam Gustin, has just penned a sweet article for The Village Voice on Google’s plans to expand in the Big Apple: For the time being, by installing itself above Chelsea’s broadband “fiber highway” at 111 Eighth Avenue, St. Arnaud explained,... -
Welcome Blogging For Journalists Readers
Posted on July 11, 2006 | No CommentsI was interviewed last week by Sree, Dean of Students at Columbia for the Blogging for Journalists site. -
Q&A with Prof. Sam Freedman
Posted on April 21, 2006 | 2 CommentsThe toughest, most demanding and most ultimately rewarding professor I ever had, Sam Freedman, has just come out with his latest book, Letters to a Young Journalist. Poynter (a clearinghouse of journalism industry happenings) has a great interview with him: You’re tough on bloggers, FOX...
