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Dan Gillmor

Dan Gillmoris an American technology writer and columnist. He was director of News Co/Lab, an initiative to elevate news literacy and awareness, atArizona State University'sWalter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.[1]Dan Gillmor is also in the board of directors of The Signals Network, a non-profit organization supporting whistleblowers.[2]

Dan Gillmor
Gillmor in 2005
Education1981 graduate of theUniversity of Vermont
Occupation(s)Director, News Co/Lab,Arizona State University[1]
Websitedangillmor

Career

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Before becoming a journalist, Gillmor worked as a musician for seven years. During the 1986–87 academic year he was aMichigan Journalism Fellowat theUniversity of MichiganinAnn Arbor,where he studied history, political theory and economics. Gillmor worked at theKansas City Timesand several newspapers in Vermont, followed by six years at theDetroit Free Press.

From 1994 to 2005, Gillmor was a columnist at theSan Jose Mercury News,Silicon Valley’s daily newspaper, during which time he became a leading chronicler of thedot-com boomand its subsequent bust. Starting in October 1999, he wrote a weblog forThe Mercury News,which is believed to have been the first by a journalist for a traditional media company.[3]Gillmor'seJournalarchives were believed to be lost but have been found in theInternet Archiveand are now restored at Bayosphere.[4]

Gillmor leftThe Mercury Newsin January 2005 to work on a start-up venture incitizen journalismcalledBayosphere,which aimed to "make it easier for the public to report and publish on the Internet."[5]Launched in May 2005,[6]Bayosphereclosed in January 2006.[7]

After closingBayosphere,Gillmor moved on to a new project, the Center for Citizen Media, a non-profit organization affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University Law School.[7]

In 2007, Gillmor co-foundedDopplr,an online travel application project.[8]

In November 2007, Gillmor was named founding director ofArizona State University's new Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at theWalter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.[8]Dan Gillmor is a board member of theGlobal Editors Networksince its creation in April 2011.[9]

Awards and honors

Gillmor won theEFF Pioneer Awardin 2002.[10]

Works

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Books

Dan Gillmor is the author ofWe the Media(2004),[11]which describes the Internet as an opportunity for independent journalists to challenge the consolidation of traditional media and contains Gillmor's widely cited realization: "my readers know more than I do."[12]The book offers a guide to new internet tools for journalists, includingweblogs,RSS,SMS,peer-to-peer,and predicts how these tools will change journalism. In 2009, Gillmor publishedMediactive,[13]a book on digital media literacy. One review noted that the book's "thesis in itself is neither new nor original", but that the book represents "the first time someone has put it all down in one place".[14]

Podcasts

See also

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References

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  1. ^ab"Dan Gillmor, Professor of Practice".Arizona State University.Retrieved21 February2020.
  2. ^"The Signals Network website".Retrieved8 July2022.
  3. ^Rosenberg, Scott (2009).Say Everything: How Blogging Began, What It's Becoming, and Why It Matters.New York: Crown. pp. 134–135.
  4. ^Gillmor, Dan (2010)."Information safety".Mediactive.Dan Gillmor.Retrieved2012-03-10.
  5. ^"Dan Gillmor to leave MN".San Jose Mercury News.San Jose, CA. 2004-12-10. p. 1E.
  6. ^Johnson, Bobbie (2005-06-30)."Blog watch: Citizen chain".The Guardian.London.
  7. ^abJohnson, Miki (January 25, 2006). "'Citizens Media' Pioneer Dan Gillmor Leaving Bayosphere ".Editor & Publisher.
  8. ^ab"Digital Media Leader Named Knight Center Director, Kauffman Professor at ASU".Arizona State University. 2007-11-06. Archived fromthe originalon 2008-03-11.Retrieved2008-03-10.
  9. ^"Global Editors Network board members".Archived fromthe originalon 24 June 2013.Retrieved19 June2013.
  10. ^"2002 Pioneer Awards: Gillmor, Givens, DeCSS Writers".EFF Media Release.San Francisco, CA. 2002-04-11. Archived fromthe originalon November 27, 2008.Retrieved2012-03-24.
  11. ^Gillmor, Dan (August 2004).We the Media: Grassroots journalism by the people, for the people.Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media.ISBN0-596-00733-7.
  12. ^Gillmor, Dan (August 2004)."Introduction".We the Media.Authorama.
  13. ^Gillmor, Dan (2010-12-09).Mediactive.Dan Gillmor.ISBN978-0-9846336-0-9.
  14. ^Waldman, Simon (November 6, 2004)."All the news that's fit to blog".The Guardian.RetrievedSeptember 17,2020.
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