A journalist collects and disseminates information about current events, people, trends, and issues. His or her work is acknowledged as journalism.

Reporters are one type of journalist. They create reports or articles as a profession for broadcast or publication in mass media such as newspapers, television, radio, magazines, documentary film, or the Internet. Reporters cultivate sources for their work, their reports can be either spoken or written, and they are often expected to report in the most objective and unbiased way to serve the public good. A columnist is a journalist who writes pieces that appear regularly in newspapers or magazines. A polemical journalist combines reportage with personal opinion.

Depending on the context, the term ''journalist'' also includes various types of editors and visual journalists, such as photographers, graphic artists, and page designers.

Journalist prison census

According to the ''2008 prison census'' by the Committee to Protect Journalists, the world's foremost jailers of journalists are: # People's Republic of China # Cuba # Burma # Eritrea # Uzbekistan The Reporters Without Borders and the Committee to Protect Journalists publish reports on press freedom and organize informational campaigns.

See also

Accessinterviews.com

Critic

Military journalist

War correspondent

Notes

References

Fowler, Nathaniel Clark. (1913). ''The Handbook of Journalism: All about Newspaper Work.--Facts and Information of Vital Moment to the Journalist and to All who Would Enter this Calling.'' New York: Sully and Kleinteich.

Huffman, James L. (2003). ''A Yankee in Meiji Japan: The Crusading Journalist.'' Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. 10-ISBN 0-742-52621-6; 13-ISBN 978-0-742-52621-1

Randall, David. (2000). ''The Universal Journalist.'' Sterling Virginia: Pluto Press. 10-ISBN 0-745-31641-7; 13-ISBN 978-0-745-31641-3; OCLC 43481682

Stone, Ejijah Melville. (1921) ''Fifty Years a Journalist.'' New York: Doubleday, Page and Company. OCLC 1520155

Woods, Donald. (1981). ''Asking for Trouble: Autobiography of a Banned Journalist.'' New York: Atheneum. 10-ISBN 0689111592; 13-ISBN 978-0-689-11159-4; OCLC 6864121

Media Club of Pakistan www.iranewschannel.com www.apnaira.com

External links

Society of Professional Journalists

Twenty key points every TV journalist should know

Journalists Category:Media occupations

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genre	Jazz
occupation	Drummer
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Jo Jones (October 7, 1911 – September 3, 1985) was an American jazz drummer.

Known as Papa Jo Jones in his later years, he was sometimes confused with another influential jazz drummer, Philly Joe Jones. The two died only a few days apart.

Biography

Born as "Jonathan David Samuel Jones" in Chicago, Illinois, he moved to Alabama where he learned to play several instruments, including saxophone, piano, and drums. He worked as a drummer and tap-dancer at carnival shows until joining Walter Page's band, the Blue Devils in Oklahoma City in the late 1920s. He recorded with trumpeter Lloyd Hunter's Serenaders in 1931, and later joined pianist Count Basie's band in 1933. Jones, Basie, guitarist Freddie Green and bassist Walter Page were sometimes billed as an 'all-American Rhythm section'. Jones took a brief break for two years when he was in the military, but he remained with Basie until 1948. He participated in the Jazz at the Philharmonic concert series.

He was one of the first drummers to promote the use of brushes on drums and shifting the role of timekeeping from the bass drum to the hi-hat cymbal. Jones had a major influence on later drummers such as Buddy Rich, Kenny Clarke, Roy Haynes, Max Roach, and Louie Bellson. He also starred in several films, most notably the musical short ''Jammin' the Blues'' (1944).

Jones performed regularly in later years at the West End jazz club at 116th and Broadway in New York City. These performances were generally very well attended by other drummers such as Max Roach and Roy Haynes. In addition to his artistry on the drums, Jones was known for his irascible, combative temperament.

In contrast to drummer Gene Krupa's loud, insistent pounding of the bass drum on each beat, Jones often omitted bass drum playing altogether. Jones also continued a ride rhythm on hi-hat while it was continuously opening and closing instead of the common practice of striking it while it was closed. Jones's style influenced the modern jazz drummer's tendency to play timekeeping rhythms on a suspended cymbal that is now known as the ride cymbal.

In 1979, Jones was inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame for his contribution to the Birmingham, Alabama musical heritage. Jones was the 1985 recipient of an American Jazz Masters fellowship awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Discography

As leader

1955: ''The Jo Jones Special''

1957: ''At Newport Live''

1959: '' Jo Jones Plus Two''

1973: ''The Drums''

1976: ''The Main Man''

1985: ''Our Man, Papa Jo!''

As sideman

With Coleman Hawkins

''The Hawk Flies High'' (1957)

With Ella Fitzgerald

''Ella at the Opera House'' (1958)

References

External links

Drummerworld - biography with images and videos

All About Jazz

[ Allmusic] biography

Official website of the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame

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birth place	Maharashtra, India
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Asha Parekh (born 2 October 1942) is a Bollywood actress, director, and producer. She was one of the top stars in Hindi films from 1959 to 1973.

Biography

Early life

Asha Parekh was born into a middle-class Gujarati family on 2 October 1942 in Mahuva,Gujarat, India to a Hindu father who was from Paldi near Pirana, Ahmedabad, Gujarat and Muslim mother, and her religious upbringing involved worshipping Sai Baba. Her mother enrolled her in Indian classical dance classes at an early age.

Career

Parekh started her career as a child artist under the screen name Baby Asha Parekh in the film ''Aasmaan'' (1952). Famed film director Bimal Roy saw her dance at a stage function and cast her at the tender age of twelve in Baap Beti (1954). The film's failure disappointed her and even though she did a couple more child roles, she quit to resume her schooling. At sixteen she decided to try acting again and make her debut as a heroine, but she was rejected from Vijay Bhatt's ''Goonj Uthi Shehnai'' (1959) in favor of actress Ameeta, because the filmmaker claimed she was not star material. The very next day, film producer Subodh Mukherjee and writer-director Nasir Hussain cast her as the heroine in Dil Deke Dekho (1959) opposite Shammi Kapoor which made her a huge star.

The film also led to a long and fruitful association with Hussain. He went on to cast her as the heroine in six more of his films: Jab Pyar Kisi Se Hota Hai (1961), Phir Wohi Dil Laya Hoon (1963), Teesri Manzil (1966), Baharon Ke Sapne (1967), Pyar Ka Mausam (1969), and Caravan (1971). She also did a cameo role for his film Manzil Manzil (1984). He also got her involved in distribution of films for 21 years, starting with Baharon Ke Sapne (1967). She was primarily known as a glamour girl/excellent dancer/tomboy in most of her films, until director Raj Khosla gave her a serious image by casting her in tragedienne roles in three of her favorite films: Do Badan (1966), Chirag (1969), and Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki (1978). Director Shakti Samanta gave her more dramatic roles in her other favorite films, Pagla Kahin Ka (1970), and Kati Patang (1970), the latter earned her the Filmfare Best Actress Award. Many important directors repeated her several times in their films, such as Vijay Anand, Mohan Segal and J.P. Dutta.

Asha acted in her mother tongue Gujarati by starring in three films at the height of her fame in Hindi films, the first film being Akhand Saubhagyavati (1963), which became a huge hit. She also acted in some Punjabi films and a Kannada film Sharavegada Saradara released in 1989.

After her days as a leading lady ended, she took on supporting roles as bhabhi (sister-in-law) and mother, but she called this the "awkward phase" of her career. So she stopped acting in films, and her friends recommended that she become a television director. She took their advice and became a television director in the early 1990s with a Gujarati serial ''Jyoti''. She formed a production company ''Akruti'' and produced serials like ''Palash ke Phool'', ''Baaje Payal'', ''Kora Kagaz'' and a comedy ''Dal Mein Kaala''. She was the president of the Cine Artistes' Association from 1994 to 2000. Asha was the first female chairperson of the Central Board of Film Certification (Censor Board) of India. She held the post from 1998 to 2001 for which she received no salary but plenty of controversy for censoring films and for not giving clearance to Shekhar Kapur's ''Elizabeth''. Later, she became the treasurer of the Cine and Television Artists Association (CINTAA) and also was later elected to be one of its officebearers.

Asha stopped acting in 1995 to pursue directing and producing television serials, but her acting accomplishments were not forgotten as she received the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002. And she has continued to receive other Lifetime Achievement Awards: Kalakar Award in 2004; International Indian Film Academy Awards in 2006; Pune International Film Festival Award (2007); Ninth Annual Bollywood Award (2007) in Long Island, New York. She received the Living Legend Award from the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry(FICCI).

In 2008, she was a judge on a reality show Tyohaar Dhamaaka on the Indian entertainment channel 9X.

Personal life

Asha has remained unmarried, claiming that her reputation of being unapproachable made people hesitate in asking for her hand in marriage. There were rumors that she was romantically involved with her married director Nasir Hussain. In her later years, Asha said that she had a longtime boyfriend but declined to elaborate on the relationship, only stating that "it was nice while it lasted." She said she hadn't seen Nasir Hussain the last year of his life, as he became reclusive because of his wife's death, but she did speak to him on the phone the day before he died in 2002.

Today, she concentrates on her dance academy Kara Bhavan. The Asha Parekh Hospital in Santa Cruz, Mumbai is named after her because of her many contributions.

Filmography

Asha Parekh has acted in over 50 films.

''Aasmaan'' (1952) (as Baby Asha Parekh)

''Dhobi Doctor'' (1954)

''Baap Beti'' (1954)

''Ayodhyapati'' (1956)

''Ustad'' (1957) .... Child Artiste

''Aasha'' (1957) (uncredited)

''Dil Deke Dekho'' (1959) .... Neeta Narayan

''Hum Hindustani'' (1960) .... Sudha

''Ghunghat'' (1960) ....Laxmi

''Jab Pyar Kisise Hota Hai'' (1961) .... Nisha R. Singh

''Gharana'' (1961) ....Usha Gupta

''Chhaya'' (1961) .... Sarita J. Choudhary

''Apna Banake Dekho'' (1962)

''Phir Wohi Dil Laya Hoon'' (1963) .... Mona

''Meri Surat Teri Ankhen'' (1963) .... Kavita

''Bin Badal Barsaat'' (1963) .... Sandhya Gupta

''Bharosa'' (1963) ....Gomti

''Akhand Saubhagyavati'' (1963) .... Usha

''Ziddi (1964 film)'' (1964) .... Asha Singh

''Mere Sanam'' (1965) .... Neena Mehra

''Teesri Manzil'' (1966) .... Sunita

''Love in Tokyo'' (1966) .... Asha

''Do Badan'' (1966) .... Asha

''Aaye Din Bahar Ke'' (1966) .... Kanchan

''Upkar'' (1967) .... Kavita

''Baharon Ke Sapne'' (1967) .... Geeta

''Shikar'' (1968) .... Kiran

''Kahin Aur Chal'' (1968)

''Sajan (1969 film)'' (1969) .... Rajni

''Pyar Ka Mausam'' (1969) .... Seema Kumar

''Mahal'' (1969) ....Roopa Devi

''Kanyadan (film)'' (1969) .... Rekha

''Chirag'' (1969) .... Asha Chibber

''Aya Sawan Jhoom Ke'' (1969) .... Aarti

''Pagla Kahin Ka'' (1970) ....Dr. Shalini ("Shalu")

''Naya Raasta'' (1970) .... Shallo

''Kati Patang'' (1970) .... Madhavi ("Madhu")

''Kankan De Ole'' (Punjabi) (1970)

''Bhai-Bhai'' (1970) .... Taaj

''Aan Milo Sajna'' (1970) .... Varsha/Deepali

''Nadaan'' (1971) .... Seema

''Mera Gaon Mera Desh'' (1971) .... Anju

''Jwala'' (1971) (as Ashaparekh)....Ranjana

''Jawan Mohabbat'' (1971) .... Komal Mathur

''Caravan'' (1971) .... Sunita/Soni

''Samadhi'' (1972) .... Champa

''Rakhi Aur Hathkadi'' (1972) .... Janki/Kiran

''Heera (film)'' (1973) .... Asha

''Anjaan Raahen'' (1974) .... Geeta

''Rani Aur Lalpari'' (1975) .... Kamla

''Zakhmee'' (1975) .... Asha

''Udhar Ka Sindur'' (1976) .... Shanta

''Kulvadhu'' (1977) .... Chandan

''Adha Din Adhi Raat'' (1977)

''Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki'' (1978) .... Tulsi Chouhan

''Prem Vivah'' (1979)

''Bin Phere Hum Tere'' (1979) .... Jamuna

''Sau Din Saas Ke'' (1980) .... Sheela

''Bulundi'' (1980)

''Khel Muqaddar Ka'' (1981)

''Kaalia'' (1981) .... Shanti

''Pakhandi'' (1984)

''Dharam Aur Kanoon'' (1984)

''Manzil Manzil'' (1984) .... Vijay's mom

''Lava (film)'' (1985) .... Amar's mom

''Car Thief (film)'' (1986) .... Mrs. Mehera

''Sagar Sangam'' (1988)

''Main Tere Liye'' (1988) .... Priti

''Hamara Khandaan'' (1988) .... Sharda Singh (Vishal's mom)

''Hum To Chale Pardes'' (1988)

''Hathyar (1989 film)'' (1989) .... Avinash's mother

''Batwara'' (1989) .... Bade Thakur's wife

''Professor Ki Padosan'' (1993) .... Shobha (Prof's Wife)

''Bhagyawan'' (1994) .... Savitri

''Ghar Ki Izzat'' (1994) .... Seeta

''Andolan'' (1995)

''Sar Aankhon Par'' (1999)....Herself

Awards and nominations

# Filmfare Award Nomination as Best Actress for Chirag(1969) # Filmfare Best Actress Award for Kati Patang(1970) # Filmfare Award Nomination as Best Supporting Actress for Udhar Ka Sindoor(1976) # Filmfare Award Nomination as Best Supporting Actress for Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki (1978) # Padma Shri awarded in the Arts (1992) # Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award (2002) # Indian Motion Picture Producers' Association(IMPPA) felicitated Asha for her outstanding contribution to the Indian film industry (2003) # Kalakar Award--Lifetime Achievement Award (2004) # International Indian Film Academy Awards for outstanding achievement in Indian cinema (2006) # Saptarang Ke Saptashee Award (2006) # Gujarati Association of North America (GANA)'s First International Gujarati Convention-Lifetime Achievement Award (2006) # Pune International Film Festival—Lifetime Achievement Award (2007) # Bollywood Award—Lifetime Achievement Award (2007) # Living Legend Award from the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry(FICCI). # Film Federation of India honored Asha at its Golden Jubilee celebration ceremony-(2008) # Sahyadri Navratna Award given to Asha for being a "woman of substance" (2008) # Solitaire for Life Award from the ABN Amro Solitaire Design Awards show (2008) # Nashik International Film Festival-Lifetime Achievement Award (2009) # 'Lachchu Mahraj Puraskar' Award for Asha's contribution to dance and acting (2009) # 40th International Film Festival of India felicitated Asha for completing 50 years in Hindi cinema (2009) # 'Legends Live Forever Award' from the Immortal Memories Event (2009) # Golden Laurel Award—Ninth Gr8 Women Achievers Awards (2010) # Prakarti Ratan Award (2010) # Jaipur International Film Festival—Lifetime Achievement Award (2011) # Legendary Icon Cine Artist Award-Dadasaheb Phalke Academy Awards (2011)

References

External links

http://www.rediff.com/entertai/2002/jun/10dinesh.htm

* http://www.musicindiaonline.com/n/i/hindi/694/

http://sify.com/movies/bollywood/fullstory.php?id=14123471

http://sify.com/movies/bollywood/interview.php?id=13541479&cid;=2398

http://www.indiantelevision.com/interviews/y2k3/producer/ashaparekh.htm

http://www.mid-day.com/smd/play/2004/june/85008.htm (Asha Parekh's recipe and the kind of food she likes.)

http://www.screenindia.com/jan28/tele3.htm (interview and photograph of Asha Parekh talking about directing her television serials.)

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Jo Brand | image Jo Brand Award.jpg | caption Jo Brand at the BBC Magazines Awards for Excellence. | birth_name Josephine Grace Brand | birth_place London, United Kingdom | birth_date July 23, 1957 | nationality British | spouse Bernie Bourke(1997–present) | medium Stand-up, television, film | active 1986–present | genre Observational comedy | subject Marriage, satire | notable_work ''Getting On'' }}

Josephine Grace "Jo" Brand (born 23 July 1957) is a BAFTA winning British comedienne, writer, and actress.

Early life

Jo Brand was born 23 July 1957 in Wandsworth, London. Her mother was a social worker. Brand is the middle of three children, with two brothers. When she was about four, the family moved to the village of St Mary's Platt near Sevenoaks in Kent, and a year later to Benenden. Brand was educated at Helenswood School, Hastings, Tunbridge Wells Girls' Grammar School and Bexhill College. She worked as a psychiatric nurse for ten years, at the South London Bethlem, Cefn Coed Hospital in Swansea and Maudsley Hospital in South London.

Comedy career

Brand was persuaded by agent Malcolm Hardee to begin a career in stand-up comedy, where she acquired the stage name "The Sea Monster". She was part of the British alternative comedy movement, working in London alternative comedy clubs, and appearing initially on the ''Saturday Live'' television show.

Brand's early style involved her delivering jokes in a bored monotone, one line at a time, with pauses in between. It drew heavily from pop culture and the media, with many jokes containing references to well-known celebrities and public figures. With her Doc Marten boots, her large size, and her short hair, her image (and comedic material) remained the same for most of the 1980s and 1990s, inspired at least in part by radicalised feminism. Her appearance and material led to false rumours that she was a lesbian.

In 1993 she became a resident panellist, along with Tony Hawks, on BBC monologue show ''The Brain Drain''. Her transition into mainstream television continued when she obtained her own series on Channel 4, ''Jo Brand Through the Cakehole'', co-written with comedy writer Jim Miller, who was already her main stand-up writer. She has had several solo television series, and presented shows such as ''Jo Brand's Commercial Breakdown''. She had a cameo appearance in the 1994 episode of ''Absolutely Fabulous'', "New Best Friend", and also appeared on ''Star Spell'', a spin off from ''Hard Spell'' in 2004. Her television success continued with guest appearances on shows such as ''Have I Got News For You'' and ''QI''. As a fan of ''Countdown'', she achieved an ambition when she was invited to appear in the show's "Dictionary Corner" as the celebrity guest. She later became a friend of the host, Richard Whiteley, and after his death in 2005 attended his memorial service at York Minster. She has since appeared on ''Countdown'' several more times.

In 2007, Brand narrated ''Laughter & Tears: The Les Dawson Story'', a documentary tribute to Les Dawson, which was broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in October 2007.

Brand took part in the first celebrity version of ''Comic Relief does Fame Academy''. In 2007, she appeared as a celebrity contestant on ''Comic Relief Does The Apprentice'', again to raise money for Comic Relief. In 2009 she participated in ''Let's Dance for Comic Relief'', another Comic Relief fundraiser, dancing as Britney Spears, reaching the final. She has more recently been a judge on the show.

Brand appeared as a judge in the BBC2 series ''The Speaker'' in April 2009. She offered advice, along with John Amaechi and Jeremy Stockwell, in the eight-part series charting the search for "Britain's Best Young Speaker".

Brand co-wrote and starred in the BBC Four sitcom ''Getting On'' alongside Joanna Scanlan and Vicki Pepperdine, for which she won the 2011 Best TV Comedy Actress BAFTA award. The series was directed by Peter Capaldi and is a gritty and realistic satire on the current state of the NHS, set in an old person's ward.

In 2010, Brand took part in ''Channel 4's Comedy Gala'', a benefit show held in aid of Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, filmed live at the O2 Arena in London on 30 March.

She will be playing the Demon Dinner Lady in the 2011 British live-action 3D family comedy film ''Horrid Henry: The Movie''.

Other work

In 2003, she was listed in ''The Observer'' as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy. In 2004, Brand appeared in a special episode of ''What Not to Wear'', where fashion gurus Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine gave her a makeover. In March 2006, Jo appeared on ''Parkinson'' with Daniel Day-Lewis and Jane Fonda. Brand is known to be a big fan of Crystal Palace Football Club, and has sponsored the match ball for games in the past.

Brand appeared on the 25 March 2007 episode of ''Play It Again'' where she was required to learn how to play the organ in just four months. This was in preparation to perform Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor for an audience of 8,000 people at London's Royal Albert Hall on the second largest pipe organ in the United Kingdom. In order to practise her performance, she played at a church wedding, and accompanied dancers at Blackpool Tower. Prior to this, her only experiences with musical instruments had been childhood piano and violin lessons.

Books

Brand has written a number of commercially successful books:

''A Load of Old Balls: Men in History'' (London: Simon & Schuster, 1994). ISBN 067171385X

''A Load of Old Ball Crunchers: Women in History'' (London: Simon & Schuster, 1996). ISBN 0684816954

''Mental'' (with Helen Griffin. HTV Sherman Plays series. Cardiff: Drama Association of Wales, 1996). ISBN 1898740410

''Sorting Out Billie'' (novel. London: Review, 2004). ISBN 075532336x

''It's Different for Girls'' (novel. London: Headline Review, 2005). ISBN 0755322290

''The More You Ignore Me'' (novel. London: Headline Review, 2009). ISBN 0755322312

''Look Back in Hunger. The Autobiography'' (London: Headline Review, 2010). ISBN 0755355253

''Can't Stand Up For Sitting Down. The Autobiography – Part 2'' (London: Headline Review, 2010). ISBN 9780755355266

''Sorting Out Billie'' and ''The More You Ignore Me'' deal with socially dysfunctional behaviour and draw on her experience in psychiatric nursing. ''It's Different for Girls'' looks at growing up in a one-horse seaside town.

Personal life

Brand married Bernie Bourke, a psychiatric nurse, in 1997 in Shropshire.

Brand delivered a guest lecture on the subject of psychiatric nursing for the University of Derby Psychology Society in 1997 in return for a donation to Derby Rape Crisis. Also in 1997 she opened, at Lambeth Hospital in South London, the first major exhibition of The Adamson Collection since the death of Edward Adamson, the pioneer of Art Therapy, in 1996.

On July 17, 2007, Brand was awarded an honorary doctorate for her former work as a psychiatric nurse from the University of Glamorgan. Professor Donna Mead, Dean of the School of Health, Sport and Science at the University of Glamorgan who read Brand up for the award commented, “Jo incorporates much of her experience working in the field of mental health into her current work as a comedian. This has increased awareness of the work done by nurses in the mental health field. She has also used her experiences of working with individuals with conditions such as Alzheimer’s to promote awareness of and raise funds for the Alzheimer’s Society.”

In February 2009, Brand was among a group of British entertainers who wrote an open letter to ''The Times'' of London in support of the Bahá'í leaders then on trial in Iran.

Politics

Brand is a staunch supporter of the Labour Party. She is still a contributor to and supporter of the party in 2010. She is a patron of International Animal Rescue and the Prader-Willi Syndrome Association, as well as the National Self Harm Network, otherwise known as NSHN, and London Nightline. She is the president of The Ectopic Pregnancy Trust. Brand introduced and spoke at the celebration of Michael Foot's life at the Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, on 8 November 2010.. She is also a Republican.

Awards and nominations

British Comedy Award 2011: Best TV Comedy Actress

BAFTA: Best Female Performance in a Comedy Role.

Stand-up DVDs

''Barely Live'' (24 November 2003)

References

External links

Jo Brand: Me? Singing? I couldn't get arrested? Interview by Jasper Rees, ''The Telegraph'', 30 January 2008.

Keep on running: Jo Brand Interview by Tarquin Cooper, ''The Telegraph'', 9 April 2005.

Article about Brand's career for TV show ''The Speaker'', BBC website

BBC Interview by Matt Stadlen – Five Minutes With: Jo Brand (2009–08–14)

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Jo Garcia (born August 3, 1980) is an American nude and lingerie Playboy model who became Playboy's Cyber Girl of the Year for 2008, after being named Cyber Girl of the Month in October 2007, and Cyber Girl of the Week for the week of June 18, 2007.

In an interview with Kotaku she stated that she is an avid gamer; listing favorites such as the Radiata Stories, Xenosaga trilogy and up to "100 hours into FFXII".

An avid fan of roleplaying games, she talks about her experiences playing the ''Final Fantasy'' series, interviews she does with video game industry people, as well as other video games she's currently into.

In August 2009, Garcia was the floor correspondent for Blizzard Entertainment's Blizzcon 2009, performing interviews and demonstrations from the show floor for the DirecTV pay per view feed.

In August 2008, Garcia launched a video game blog that appears on Playboy.com, called The Gamer Next Door. In her blog, Garcia reviews games and interviews industry professionals and celebrities about video games. For Halloween 2008, she counted down her favorite scary games while touring the haunted house at the Playboy Mansion Halloween party.

In October 2008, Garcia appeared in a presidential election spoof video for Funny or Die.com. Footage was taken from the Presidential town hall debate which took place October 7, 2008, and digitally altered to show the women asking Senators Obama and McCain a series of questions. Garcia is also involved with Pwn or Die.com and regularly contributes videos that can be found at her personal Pwn or Die page.

A digitized sequences of Garcia's DNA was preserved in the Immortality Drive in case some global cataclysm should occur on Earth.

References

External links

The Gamer Next Door Blog

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