Jeff Koyen

Jeff Koyen is an American journalist, editor and entrepreneur. 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."

Koyen was born in 1969 and raised in Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey and currently lives in Brooklyn. While living in Venice Beach, CA, 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.

In 2017, Koyen was honored by the "Society of Professional Journalists"' Deadline Club and the Society of American Business Editors and Writers for his investigation into New York CIty's black market for food cart permits, which was published by Crain's New York Business.

From 1994 to 2000, Koyen was the editor of the zine Crank,. It was the first zine to be published simultaneously in print and online, first in 1994 via FTP, then at Crank.com starting in 1995.

Starting in 1998, he was a contributing writer and production manager at New York Press until he moved to Prague in 2002, where he was hired as associate editor at the expatriate paper, The Prague Pill. There, he met and formed a close working relationship with Alexander Zaitchik. In February 2003, Koyen was hired as editor-in-chief of New York Press by new owners. Zaitchik left Prague to join him on the New York Press masthead.

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