Lynn University

Dean David Jaffe's professional career has a nearly equal balance between “on air” work in the radio, television and film industries and university teaching and research. He has held positions as a radio disc-jockey in various popular radio and classical music formats, reporter, political commentator, war correspondent, news director and radio and TV talk show host. His academic career includes faculty appointments at several universities and a 25-year tenure at the University of Oklahoma, where he is professor emeritus of journalism and mass communication. He joined Lynn University in September 2001.

Although Jaffe's background gives him the perspective of a mass media and broadcasting “generalist,” his professional and research focus is the adoption and impact of emerging technologies on the mass media. He helped establish the first cable television origination station in the U.S. in 1967 and in Israel in 1980. Between those years he served as a cable television franchise consultant to numerous cities and municipalities. In 1985, he received a grant from the federal government to conduct research on a telephone-based broadcast delivery system that paved the way for Internet radio and television streaming. From 1997 to 2001, Jaffe worked in Israel's high tech industry as a consultant to publishing companies developing audio and video streaming services. He built the first Internet radio station that produced original news programming and assisted in establishing the first Internet radio station operated by a daily newspaper (The Jerusalem Post). He is also a veteran World Wide Web designer and served as webmaster for several international mass media companies.

Education

• B.A., Albright College
• M.S., Temple University
• Ph.D., University of Iowa