Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/

[Paul Jones <pjones AT metalab.unc.edu>]

Please come, join the Facebook event, and forward as appropriate
Thx, Paul

Dan will also be speaking at Duke on April 7th.

Dan Gillmor on the State of Citizen Media
We the Media Report from the Center for Citizen Media

Host: Friends of ibiblio and J-School
Date: 06 April 2009
Time: 15:30 - 16:30
Location: Freedom Forum Conference Center, Carroll Hall - UNC

Dan Gillmor 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.