Stewart Cheifet
Encyclopedia
Stewart Cheifet is a TV presenter who is best known for his work presenting and producing Computer Chronicles
and Net Cafe
. He has also worked in other reporting positions for, among others, PBS
and ABC
. Raised in Philadelphia, he attended Central High School and graduated from Harvard Law School, and University of Southern California with a degree in communications law and technology journalism.
He now teaches journalism classes at the Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno.
Computer Chronicles
The Computer Chronicles was a US television series, broadcast during 1981-2002 on Public Broadcasting Service public television, which documented the rise of the personal computer from its infancy to the immense market at the turn of the century...
and Net Cafe
Net Cafe (TV series)
Net Cafe was a US television series documenting the internet boom of the late 1990s. It was broadcast from 1996 to 2002 and hosted by Stewart Cheifet, Jane Wither, and Andrew deVries. The show was effectively a "spinoff" of the long running PBS series Computer Chronicles-External links:* at...
. He has also worked in other reporting positions for, among others, PBS
Public Broadcasting Service
The Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia....
and ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The 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...
. Raised in Philadelphia, he attended Central High School and graduated from Harvard Law School, and University of Southern California with a degree in communications law and technology journalism.
He now teaches journalism classes at the Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno.
External links
- cheifet.com - Stewart Cheifet Productions official website