Peter Olsthoorn Email & Phone Number

Peter Olsthoorn (1960), historian, a journalist since 1978 for regional and national newspapers and later for management and trade magazines in the Netherlands, Germany and the U.S. like CommunicationsWeek. He worked for dailies, radio and television from Eastern Europe during the upheavals of 1988-1990.From 1995 until late 2007 he produced Planet Multimedia, one of the first European e-zines, and in 1997 wrote he the book "Intranet & Internet", in 1998 "Dialogue via Intranet" and in 2010 "The power of Google, " in a short version translated in English as The Price we Pay for Google. In March 2012 Peter finished The Power of Facebook, in Dutch, published in a public paperback version of about 250 pages, and a professional hardcover version of 470 pages. In February 2013 the English versions appeared, in 100, 300 and 500 pages.In 2000 he founded Netkwesties.nl, an e-zine about social-economic consequences of the Internet, and in 2008 Leugens.nl about falsehoods in politics, media etc.. In 2021 Peter finished his PhD on privacymarkets.Olsthoorn is a regular speaker about e-commerce, Google, Facebook and media, and commenter about these subjects on TV, radio and in newspapers. He also acts as moderator and trainer for journalism, effective presentations and fruitful dialogues.He was chairman of the Internet section of the Dutch journalist association NVJ and a member of the Press Council.He has broad interests, from literature, plays, and watching people, to swimming, soccer and running.

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