Jeff Howe is Assistant Professor of Journalism at Northeastern University, where he runs Media Innovation at Northeastern, an interdisciplinary graduate program in digital storytelling. Howe is a longtime contributing editor at Wired magazine. In a 2006 Wired article he coined the term “crowdsourcing” and later wrote the book, "Crowdsourcing: How the Power of Crowds is Driving the Future of Business." He is a former Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, NewYorker.com and many other publications. He lives in Cambridge and is currently co-authoring a book with Joi Ito, the director of the MIT Media Lab.