Jason Chervokas is a veteran journalist, writer, commentator, entrepreneur and musician. He co-founded @NY in 1995 with Tom Watson, a pioneering Internet publishing venture and the first publication to chronicle Silicon Alley,[1] and is the author of the Uniform Hieroglyphic[2] blog, and the creator of the popular American roots music podcast, Down in the Flood.[3] He also served as venture partner at Primedia Ventures and taught journalism at Hunter College in New York City. He was the 1993 winner of the Emily Genauer Prize in Arts Criticism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.