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Todd Stauffer
Todd Stauffer is co-founder and publisher of the Jackson Free Press in Jackson, Mississippi, and author of 40 nonfiction books on a variety of computer-related topics. He lives with his partner, journalist and editor Donna Ladd in Fondren.
In 2006, Stauffer received national attention for leading an effort to fight the efforts of the Gannett Corp.‘s TDN scheme to control the distribution of locally owned publications in Mississippi. He is the president of the Mississippi Independent Publishers Association, formed in response to the TDN scheme. Stauffer, a critic of corporate media, received an Association of Alternative Newsweeklies award for his media criticism.
Stauffer wrote one of the earliest books on blogging and is now a national consultant for publications seeking to transition to the Internet, speaking at national and state newspaper gatherings, from the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies to the New York Press Association.
Stauffer is also a long-time media personality. He was co-host of the Emmy-winning “Disk Doctors” show on Knowledge TV in the 1990s. He was the host of Peak Computing Radio Hour in Denver, Colo., and is currently the host of Radio JFP on WLEZ-FM in Jackson.
