About Dan Gillmor
Dan is director of the Center for Citizen Media, a nonprofit affiliated with the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University Law School.
Dan is author of We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People (2004; O’Reilly Media), and is working on a new book about media in the digital age. The paperback version of We the Media was published in January 2006, and the book has been published in several other languages including Chinese and Japanese.
In 2005 Dan worked on citizen media through Grassroots Media Inc. From 1994-2005 he was a columnist at the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley’s daily newspaper, and wrote a weblog 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 the 1986-87 academic year Dan was a journalism fellow at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he studied history, political theory and economics.
Before becoming a journalist he played music professionally for seven years.
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