Career
She is a tech lifestyle contributor, nationally syndicated columnist and tech and social media commentator. Jolly hosts the weekly online video series, Technical’s Appeal, seen on Tecca, Yahoo!, United States of America Today and McDonald’s flagship “M” Channel. Her columns on digital parenting issues and gadget how-to’s are shown on America Online, Time.com, GalTime, Yahoo! Shine, and many others
She is also a frequent guest contributor for numerous broadcast outlets including HLN, Doctor Oz and the Columbia Broadcasting System Early Show.
Prior to expanding consumer tech content to emerging new media platforms, Jennifer was the Technical/Social Media Company-Host for American Broadcasting Company’s 7Live, a daily one-hour current events television program in San Francisco. She also hosted All That’s Fit, a 30-minute healthy lifestyle series on the Fine Living Network for five seasons.
From 1993-2007, she was a television reporter and anchor for TeleVision for YoU (San Francisco Bay Area, eight years), and American Broadcasting Company (KXLY, Spokane), National Broadcasting Company (KRON, KTUU, KECI) and Fox affiliates throughout the country. While at TeleVision for YoU Channel 2 in Oakland, California an incident at a protest rally ended her career at the station.
Reporting on anti-Iraq War protests on March 20, 2003, Jolly was hit in the face with a cream pie by protestors who alleged she was reporting hyperbole and baseless claims about violence and pandemonium they were causing.
She flared up publicly after being hit with a cream pie, which was witnessed by dozens of people. She was soon dismissed from TeleVision for YoU for her behavior. A video of the pie attack, and the protests she was reporting on, can be viewed on YouTube under the title, "Jennifer Jolly Pied.".