Dan Gillmor
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Dan Gillmor is founding director of the Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship and Kauffman Professor of Digital Media Entrepreneurship at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.
He also directs the Center for Citizen Media, affiliated with Arizona State, and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University Law School, where he is a fellow. Gillmor is author of We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People, a book that explains the rise of citizen media and why it matters.
Gillmor spent almost 25 years in newspapers, including a 10-year stint as business and technology columnist at the San Jose Mercury News. An early advocate of online journalism, he is an investor in and/or co-founder of several online companies.
