Guy Tasaka

Founder, Managing Partner at Tasaka Digital

Guy Tasaka is an American media executive with 40 years in newspapers, magazines, broadcast, and streaming — including product leadership at major media tech companies. He is currently the technology columnist for Editor and Publisher, specializing in translating frontier technology into media business models and working products.

He worked on the original nytimes.com and was the original internet strategist for the newspaper, and has since built a string of firsts: the first e-reader newspaper/magazine distribution outside Amazon, early local paywalls, paid local mobile apps, and among the first connected-TV/FAST channels. His current focus is agentic AI.

Guy is founder and managing partner of Tasaka Digital, a strategy consultancy helping publishers navigate AI. His career spans B2B publishing (Macworld, Ziff-Davis), The New York Times, Gatehouse/Gannett, and media-tech leaders LibreDigital and WideOrbit.

His current work: a portfolio of open-source, agent-first media infrastructure — software built assuming an AI agent is the operator, not a human with a dashboard. The goal is capacity, not cost-cutting: giving independent and special-interest publishers capabilities — product, analytics, ad ops — they could never afford to staff.