Rate My Professor Jeff Howe

In his career, Howe was a longtime contributing editor at Wired and has published in The Washington Post, The New Yorker online, The New York Times, Time, Newsweek, and numerous other outlets. He joined Northeastern University as an assistant professor of multimedia journalism on October 25, 2012, advancing to associate professor. He also holds a position as visiting scholar at the MIT Media Lab, where he co-authored Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future (2017) with Joi Ito, director of the Media Lab. Howe's research specializations include crowdsourcing, massive online collaboration, resilience particularly in COVID-19 contexts and beyond, journalism, technology and innovation, media innovation, citizen journalism, and the future of technology and society. He founded Northeastern's Media Innovation Program, developed a new graduate track in media innovation aimed at journalists, and contributes to the Public Engagement with Science Hub and Science Media Lab. His foundational contributions have profoundly shaped academic and industry perspectives on digital collaboration, crowdsourced production, and the rapid evolution of media landscapes.