Jonathan Taplin

Writer, Film Producer & Scholar; Director Emeritus of the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab

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Jonathan Taplin Biography

Jonathan Taplin is a writer, film producer and scholar. He is the Director Emeritus of the Annenberg Innovation Lab at the University of Southern California and was a Professor at the USC Annenberg School from 2003-2016 in the field of international communication management and digital media entertainment. Taplin began his entertainment career in 1969 as Tour Manager for Bob Dylan and The Band. In 1973 he produced Martin Scorsese's first feature film, Mean Streets, which was selected for the Cannes Film Festival. Between 1974 and 1996, Taplin produced 26 hours of television documentaries (including The Prize and Cadillac Desert for PBS) and 12 feature films including The Last Waltz, Until The End of the World, Under Fire and To Die For. His films were nominated for Oscar and Golden Globe awards and chosen for The Cannes Film Festival five times.

In 1984 Taplin acted as the investment advisor to the Bass Brothers in their successful attempt to save Walt Disney Studios from a corporate raid. This experience brought him to Merrill Lynch, where he served as vice president of media mergers and acquisitions. In this role, he helped re-engineer the media landscape on transactions such as the leveraged buyout of Viacom. Taplin was a founder of Intertainer and has served as its Chairman and CEO since June 1996. Intertainer was the pioneer video-on-demand company for both cable and broadband Internet markets. Taplin holds two patents for video on demand technologies. Professor Taplin has provided consulting services on Broadband technology to the President of Portugal and the Parliament of the Spanish state of Catalonia and the Government of Singapore.

Mr. Taplin graduated from Princeton University. He is a member of the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and sits on the Author’s Guild Council and the Board of the American Music Association. Mr. Taplin was appointed to the California Broadband Task Force and the City of Los Angles Technology and Innovation Council. He was named one of the 50 most social media savvy professors in America by Online College and one of the 100 American Digerati by Deloitte’s Edge Institute.

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Jonathan Taplin Videos

  • IPAS 2022 Featured Speaker: Jonathan Taplin
    Featured Speaker: Jonathan Taplin (Film producer, author, Director Emeritus of the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab)
  • Overcoming Big Tech An Interview With Jonathan Taplin
    The large technology companies have transformed many industries and this has been accelerated by Covid-19. Jonathan Taplin experienced this...

Jonathan Taplin Books

  • The End of Reality: How Four Billionaires are Selling a Fantasy Future of The Metaverse, Mars, and Crypto
    The End of Reality: How Four Billionaires are Selling a Fantasy Future of The Metaverse, Mars, and Crypto
  • The Magic Years: Scenes from a Rock-and-Roll Life
    The Magic Years: Scenes from a Rock-and-Roll Life
  • Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy
    Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy

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