Media journalist Jeff Kaye expands coverage in Current
Jeff Kaye, a longtime reporter on media industries and co-author of the 2010 book Funding Journalism in the Digital Age: Business Models, Strategies, Issues and Trends (Peter Lang, New York), joined Current this month as a senior editor covering primarily the new media/new journalism beats.
Restoring Current’s editorial staff to four editors and commissioning more coverage by freelancers are parts of the publication’s expansion since becoming part of the School of Communication at American University a year ago. Current will also debut a rebuilt website early this year. The upgrades and AU’s acquisition of Current are funded by the Wyncote Foundation, a Philadelphia grantmaker active in public media and journalism.
Kaye has covered television for the Los Angeles Times and TV Guide and managed overseas coverage for the Hollywood Reporter as its European editor based in London. He also served as head of content for British Telecom consumer websites and edited CTW, a European magazine about computer gaming.
Kaye’s book has been adopted as a text in universities around the world. Most recently he has worked as a media consultant in the New York area. He will relocate to Washington later this month to work in Current’s D.C.-area office.
Kaye earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism at San Francisco State University and a master’s degree in e-commerce from the University of London, Birkbeck College. He has taught journalism there and at the University of California at Los Angeles.