Jason Snell Jeopardy Profile: Age, Job, Family, Stats

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Jason Snell is an American journalist, writer, editor, podcaster, and digital publisher based in Mill Valley, California. He is best known for covering technology, especially Apple, Macintosh computers, the iPhone, and related services, while also writing and podcasting about pop culture, science fiction, television, streaming media, and broader geek culture. Born on October 6, 1970, in Oakland, California, he grew up in Sonora, California, in the Sierra Nevada foothills and graduated from Sonora High School in 1988. He then attended Revelle College at the University of California, San Diego, from 1988 to 1992, where he worked on the UCSD Guardian newspaper for three years and served as editor in chief. He graduated with a B.A. in Communication and later earned a Master of Journalism from the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism in 1994. During and after college, he was already active in early online publishing, founding the internet fiction magazine InterText in 1991, one of the early online literary magazines, which continued until 2004. He also created or edited other early internet publications and projects including Quanta, Athene, FSFnet, and later co-founded the early TV-focused humor and commentary site TeeVee.org in 1996.

His professional journalism career began at MacUser magazine in 1994 after an internship and freelance work, and when MacUser was absorbed into Macworld in 1997, he moved there and went on to build a long career at Macworld and IDG. Over more than two decades, he held a wide range of editorial leadership positions, including Senior Associate Editor, Senior Editor, Executive Editor, Editor of Macworld.com, Editor, Editor in Chief, Editorial Director, and eventually Senior Vice President and Editorial Director at IDG Consumer & SMB, overseeing editorial teams connected with Macworld, PCWorld, TechHive, and Greenbot. He was widely regarded as an influential figure in Macintosh journalism, and in 2006 the MDJ Power 25 named him the sixth most powerful or influential person in the world of Macintosh computing. After leaving IDG in 2014, he founded Six Colors, a member-supported editorial site focused on Apple, technology, podcasting, and related subjects, where he remains founder and editor. He continues to write for Macworld as a columnist and is also the author of Take Control of Photos.

Snell is equally notable for his podcasting career. In 2010 he launched The Incomparable, originally a weekly panel podcast discussing science fiction, fantasy, comic books, books, movies, and television, which later expanded into a podcast network with more than twenty shows. The Incomparable won the Parsec Award for Best Speculative Fiction Fan or News Podcast in 2012, 2015, and 2016. Across The Incomparable, Relay FM, TWiT, and Six Colors, he has hosted or co-hosted numerous podcasts, including Upgrade with Myke Hurley, Downstream, Liftoff, Robot or Not?, The Incomparable Mothership, Six Colors, MacBreak Weekly, and several seasonal television podcasts covering franchises such as Star Trek, Doctor Who, For All Mankind, and Magnum, P.I. He also served on the board of National Novel Writing Month from 2011 to 2017 and was board chair from 2016 to 2018. His stated specialties include technology journalism, online publishing, editorial management, content development, Apple products, podcasting, and digital media transformation. In his personal life, he lives in Mill Valley, California, with his wife and has two children. Publicly available profile material also places him online under the handle @jsnell and notes that he announced in March 2026 that he had been called to appear on Jeopardy, with his episode set to air on March 19, 2026.

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