Background
Koyen was born in 1969 and raised in Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey and currently lives in Brooklyn.
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Jeff Koyen
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Rutgers University.
Career
According to The New York Times, "The face of web tech today could easily be a designer, like Brian Chesky at Airbnb, or a magazine editor, like Jeff Koyen at Assignmint."
While living in Venice Beach, California, he founded the software startup Assignmint. He is a graduate of Rutgers University. He has worked as a freelance travel and culture writer, filing with Travel and Leisure, The New York Times, New York magazine, Radar, New York Post, New York Press, Penthouse, Wired.com, The Prague Pill, and others
He also founded the writing project 100 Words in 2001.
Koyen was the editor of the zine Crank, from 1994 to 2000. In February 2003, he was hired as editor-in-chief of New York Press by new owners.
He quit after publishing a controversial article that criticized a then-dying Pope John Paul World War II Between 2007 and 2010, he worked as the deputy editor at both Forbes Traveler and Travel + Leisure, while also freelancing for the New York Times, New York magazine and other publications. In April 2012, Koyen founded the software startup Assignmint.
In March 2005, while serving as the editor-in-chief of the New York Press, Koyen ran a cover story by Matt Taibbi entitled "52 Funniest Things About the Upcoming Death of the Pope".
The article was widely condemned by Senators Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Matt Drudge, and Abe Foxman, among others, including now-disgraced Congressman Anthony Weiner who suggested that New Yorkers take copies of that issue out of their news boxes and destroy them. The publisher responded to the attacks by demanding that Koyen publicly apologize for the article. Koyen instead chose to resign his position.
I didn"t expect them to cave in and cower so easily.
I"m really surprised they were so spineless."
Number apology was ever issued for Taibbi"s article.
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He went on to defend the story, attacking owner David Unger and publisher Chris Rohland in the media, saying "They couldn"t handle the controversy.
