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December 21, 2005

Dan Gillmor's center

Dan writes:

Starting in 2006, I'll be putting together a nonprofit Center for Citizen Media. The goals are to study, encourage and help enable the emergent grassroots media sphere, with a major focus on citizen journalism.

I'm thrilled and honored that the center will be affiliated with two superb universities in a bi-coastal partnership.

The two universities: UC Berkeley's Grad School of Journalism and the Berkman Center. Woohoo! With this sort of backing and Dan at the helm, the CCM is likely to be a hotbed of ideas, innovation, and research. I think this is an ideal situation for Dan, and thus good for all of us. There's no one I have more respect for than Dan, and I have a very good feeling about this new project.

FWIW, I'm more convinced than ever that citizens are going to be keepers of the public record (as Jon Udell has put it) more than they're going to be journalists, and that the biggest effect of blogging on journalism is and will be the moving of the editorial function into the hands of readers. [Tags: DanGillmor media journalism berkman JonUdell]

Posted by D. Weinberger at December 21, 2005 10:00 AM

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