Early next year Dan Gillmor will launch the nonprofit Center for Citizen Media as an affiliate of Berkeley’s graduate school of journalism (Gillmor will be an IF Stone teaching fellow) and Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society (Gillmor will be a research fellow).
This couldn’t come at a better time, what with the ACLU doing the investigatory legwork that should be being done by the deep-pocketed corporate media.
Gillmor writes about the impetus for the launch:
“Why do this? We need a thriving media and journalism ecosystem. We need what big institutions do so well, but we also need the bottom-up—or, more accurately, edge-in—knowledge and ideas of what I’ve called the ‘former audience’ that has become a vital part of the system. I’m also anxious to see that it’s done honorably and in a way that helps foster a truly informed citizenry. I think I can help.”
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