John Linwood Battelle is a
journalistA journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
as well as founder and chairman of Federated Media Publishing. He is a visiting professor of journalism at the
University of California, BerkeleyThe University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
and also maintains Searchblog, a weblog covering search, technology, and media.
Battelle is one of the original founders of
Wired magazine, the founder and the CEO of
The Industry StandardThe Industry Standard is a news web site dedicated to technology business news, part of InfoWorld, a news web site covering technology in general...
magazine and website, and "band manager" of the collaborative weblog
Boing BoingBoing Boing is a publishing entity, first established as a magazine, later becoming a group blog.-History:...
. He has also written for
Business 2.0Business 2.0 was a monthly magazine publication founded by magazine entrepreneur Chris Anderson, Mark Gross, and journalist James Daly in order to chronicle the rise of the "New Economy"...
and is program chair for the Web 2.0 conference. He studied at
Chandler SchoolChandler School is an independent, co-ed day school for students in kindergarten through grade eight located in Pasadena, California, United States, founded in 1950. School enrollment is 450 students. The four and one-half acre campus overlooks the Pasadena Rose Bowl and the Arroyo Seco...
,
Polytechnic SchoolPolytechnic School, often referred to as simply Poly, is a college preparatory private school in Pasadena, California.-History:The school was founded in 1907 as the first private non-sectarian, non-profit elementary school in California. It descends from the Throop Polytechnic Institute founded by...
and the
University of California, BerkeleyThe University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
, earning both a
B.A.A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...
in Anthropology in 1987, and a M.Jour. (Masters in Journalism) in 1992.
Battelle has the experience in the subjects of searching and has been on most of the news stations like
CNNCable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
, Fox News,
ABCThe American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
,
CBSCBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
, Etc. He is a board leader for his children's school. He currently lives in Ross California, and he used to live in Kentfield California.
Since 2004, Battelle has been the co-moderator, along with
Tim O'ReillyTim O'Reilly is the founder of O'Reilly Media and a supporter of the free software and open source movements.-Life and career:...
, of the annual
Web 2.0 SummitThe Web 2.0 Summit is an annual event, held in San Francisco, California, featuring discussions about the World Wide Web. The event was started in 2004 by Tim O'Reilly, who is also widely credited with coining the term "Web 2.0"...
, originally known as the "Web 2.0 Conference".
In 2005, Battelle published
The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture, chronicling the rise of online search engines and, specifically,
GoogleGoogle Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...
. The book was a International Best Seller. It has been translated in 26 different languages.
Awards and Accomplishments
He won the "Global Leader for Tomorrow" in the
World Economic ForumThe World Economic Forum is a Swiss non-profit foundation, based in Cologny, Geneva, best known for its annual meeting in Davos, a mountain resort in Graubünden, in the eastern Alps region of Switzerland....
. He is called one of the most important person online by
PC WorldPC World is a global computer magazine published monthly by IDG. It offers advice on various aspects of PCs and related items, the Internet, and other personal-technology products and services...
Magazine He also has won "Young Global Leader."In
SwitzerlandSwitzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
he also won the "Entrepreneur of the Year" and has been called a innovator.