Dan Gillmor Joins CFAC Board

Dan Gillmor, a pioneer of journalism on and about the Internet, is the newest member of CFAC’s board of directors. Gillmor is currently director of the Center for Citizen Media, a joint project of UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School.

Gillmor was a technology columnist at the San Jose Mercury News from 1994 to 2004. He is the author of We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, a 2004 book that is widely credited as the first comprehensive look at how the collision of technology and journalism is transforming the media landscape. Gillmor posts regularly to his own blog and to the blog of the Center for Citizen Media.