Collegium

Business, television, new media

Peter B. Kaufman (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)) is founder and president of Intelligent Television. He executive produces Intelligent Television’s media productions and directs the company’s research and strategic consulting work.  He also serves as co-chair of the JISC Film & Sound Think Tank; an expert consultant on access strategies for the Library of Congress Division of Motion Pictures, Broadcast, and Recorded Sound; and co-chair of the Copyright Committee of the Association of Moving Image Archivists. 

Mr. Kaufman has served as director of the Open Education Video Studio Project, supported by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation; associate director of the Columbia University Center for New Media Teaching and Learning; director of strategic initiatives for the digitization provider Innodata Isogen; president and publisher of TV Books, a company he founded and sold to Lorne Michaels’s television and film company Broadway Video; founder and executive director of PUBWATCH, a nonprofit organization that supported the publishing and bookselling industries in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union during the (putative) collapse of totalitarianism in Europe; and director of publications at the East-West Institute, a foreign policy think-tank in New York City.  He serves in an advisory capacity for EUscreen; Europeana; Opencast; PrestoCentre, and the World Policy Journal.  He has served as a consultant on technology strategies and business affairs for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, WNET.org, and other educational and cultural heritage institutions in the United States and abroad.

Educated at Cornell and Columbia, Mr. Kaufman writes and produces video about media, education, history, and society.  He has published work in Publishers Weekly, Scholarly Publishing, Slavic Review, Russian History, The New York Times, The Nation, First Monday, D-Lib, the Times Literary Supplement and International Book Publishing: An Encyclopedia.  His recent work includes “Film and Sound in Higher and Further Education,” with Paul Gerhardt for the JISC Film & Sound Think Tank; “Video for Wikipedia and the Open Web: A Guide to Best Practices for Cultural and Educational Institutions” for iCommons, the Open Video Alliance, and the Ford Foundation; “Funding Media, Strengthening Democracy: Grantmaking for the 21st Century,” with Mary Albon, for Grantmakers in Film + Electronic Media; “On Building a New Market for Culture: Virtue and Necessity in a Screen-Based Economy” for the JISC Strategic Content Alliance; “Video Use in Higher Education” for New York University and the Copyright Clearance Center; and, with Jen Mohan, “The Economics of Independent Film and Video Distribution in the Digital Age” for the Tribeca Film Institute and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.