Murtz Jaffer

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Murtz Jaffer (born August 13, 1980) is a Canadian celebrity journalist. His website is InsidePulse.com and he is the editor of subsidiary sites, RealityDish.com and PrimeTimePulse.com. Jaffer currently resides in Toronto, Canada.


[edit] Career

Jaffer began his career at the age of 17 while still in high school. He e-mailed the online editor of The Sports Network's website repeatedly and eventually was given the opportunity to write for the newly-launched wrestling section of TSN.ca. After reporting for the site from 1997-1998, Jaffer wrote for a variety of wrestling websites before deciding to launch his own internet property in 2001.

In 2001, Jaffer launched Survivor-Central, an online resource about Survivor the popular reality television series just as he began studying at the University of Toronto. Featuring several writers from the show itself, Jaffer's site became one of only a handful of websites dedicated to the show that captured an audience of 52 million for its first series finale. In 2003, Jaffer and his team accurately began predicting and spoiling who would be voted off on the program before each episode aired on national television. The predictions were published on Survivor-Central in a crystal ball format. The accuracy of the predictions led to Jaffer developing a reputation as the world's foremost Survivor expert[1] and subsequently, the world's foremost reality television expert.

In 2004, Jaffer merged Survivor-Central and launched InsidePulse.com, an entertainment website that currently features a staff of more than 200 writers.[2]

Jaffer graduated from Centennial College's post-graduate journalism program in 2003 and moved on to spoiling every major television program currently on the air for both his website and on the radio. He has worked at Entertainment Tonight Canada, the Toronto Sun and volunteered at CTV.ca.

He is currently the on-air entertainment expert on the Z1035 Morning Show.

In 2007, he appeared in The New York Times for starting an anti-application Facebook group.[3] His interview with actress Samaire Armstrong where he asked her why she posed for the Stuff male magazine[4], led to the magazine's parent website removing her pictures (after she claimed the pictures were a mistake).

Jaffer is currently working on his own reality program.

[edit] Sources

  1. ^ CANOE - JAM! Television - TV Shows - Survivor 9: Vanuatu: New 'Survivor' premieres Thursday
  2. ^ Inside Pulse - Celebrating 2 years of pop culture!
  3. ^ Have Facebook Applications Gone Too Far? - New York Times
  4. ^ Prime Time Pulse: [NEWS] Murtz Jaffer's Interview With Samaire Armstrong Gets Photos 'Removed' From Maxim

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