The state of citizen media

The state of citizen media

Dan Gillmor will speak on the state of citizen media, Monday, April 6 at 3:30 p.m., in the Freedom Forum Conference Center in Carroll Hall.

Gillmor is director of the Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship and Kauffman Professor of Digital Media Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University's Cronkite Hussman School of Journalism and Media.

He is also director of the Center for Citizen Media, a project to enhance and expand grassroots media and its reach. He is author of "We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People" -- a book that explains the rise of citizens media and why it matters.

From 1994–2005, Gillmor was a columnist at the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper, and wrote a blog for SiliconValley.com. He joined the Mercury News after six years with the Detroit Free Press. Before that, he was with the Kansas City Times and several newspapers in Vermont.

During 2005 he worked on media projects at Grassroots Media Inc.

A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Vermont, Gillmor received a Herbert Davenport fellowship in 1982 for economics and business reporting at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. During the 1986-87 academic year he was a journalism fellow at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he studied history, political theory and economics. He has won or shared in several regional and national journalism awards. Before becoming a journalist he played music professionally for seven years.

Gillmor will speak at the Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke on Tuesday, April 7 at 4:30 p.m.