Dan Gillmor
Dan Gillmor | |
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Education | 1981 graduate of the University of Vermont |
Occupation(s) | Director, News Co/Lab, Arizona State University[1] |
Website | dangillmor.com |
Dan Gillmor is an American technology writer and columnist. He is director of News Co/Lab, an initiative to elevate news literacy and awareness, at Arizona State University's Walter 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]
Career
Before becoming a journalist, Gillmor worked as a musician for seven years. During the 1986–87 academic year he was a
From 1994 to 2005, Gillmor was a columnist at the
Gillmor left The Mercury News in January 2005 to work on a start-up venture in citizen journalism called Bayosphere, which aimed to "make it easier for the public to report and publish on the Internet."[5] Launched in May 2005,[6] Bayosphere closed in January 2006.[7]
After closing Bayosphere, 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-founded Dopplr, an online travel application project.[8]
In November 2007, Gillmor was named founding director of Arizona State University's new Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.[8] Dan Gillmor is a board member of the Global Editors Network since its creation in April 2011.[9]
- Awards and honors
Gillmor won the EFF Pioneer Award in 2002.[10]
Works
- Books
Dan Gillmor is the author of
- Podcasts
- We, the Media recorded (mp3) at Accelerating Change 2004, November 5–7, 2004.
- 2004 Outlook
- Dan Gillmor at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival 2005 in Austin, Texas, March 11–15, 2005.
See also
References
- ^ a b "Dan Gillmor, Professor of Practice". Arizona State University. Retrieved 21 February 2020.
- ^ "The Signals Network website". Retrieved 8 July 2022.
- ^ Rosenberg, Scott (2009). Say Everything: How Blogging Began, What It's Becoming, and Why It Matters. New York: Crown. pp. 134–135.
- ^ Gillmor, Dan (2010). "Information safety". Mediactive. Dan Gillmor. Retrieved 2012-03-10.
- ^ "Dan Gillmor to leave MN". San Jose Mercury News. San Jose, CA. 2004-12-10. p. 1E.
- ^ Johnson, Bobbie (2005-06-30). "Blog watch: Citizen chain". The Guardian. London.
- ^ a b Johnson, Miki (January 25, 2006). "'Citizens Media' Pioneer Dan Gillmor Leaving Bayosphere". Editor & Publisher.
- ^ a b "Digital Media Leader Named Knight Center Director, Kauffman Professor at ASU". Arizona State University. 2007-11-06. Archived from the original on 2008-03-11. Retrieved 2008-03-10.
- ^ "Global Editors Network board members". Archived from the original on 24 June 2013. Retrieved 19 June 2013.
- ^ "2002 Pioneer Awards: Gillmor, Givens, DeCSS Writers". EFF Media Release. San Francisco, CA. 2002-04-11. Archived from the original on November 27, 2008. Retrieved 2012-03-24.
- ISBN 0-596-00733-7.
- ^ Gillmor, Dan (August 2004). "Introduction". We the Media. Authorama.
- ISBN 978-0-9846336-0-9.
- ^ Waldman, Simon (November 6, 2004). "All the news that's fit to blog". The Guardian. Retrieved September 17, 2020.
External links
- Dan Gillmor official website
- Bayosphere.com Dan Gillmor's eJournal archives
- Profile Archived 2011-09-28 at the Wayback Machine at Arizona State University
- Profile at Center for Citizen Media
- mediactive blog
- Column archive at The Guardian
- Column archive at Salon
- Appearances on C-SPAN