Mediactive: a user's guide to finding, following, and creating the news

The current woes of journalism have received widespread attention -- declining readership, failing publishers, complaints of bias and irrelevancy. How can we live in an information age unless we have access to information? With this book, students, journalists, and anyone concerned with the future of democratic debate will find strategies and techniques for making the news vibrant again. "Dan Gillmor is founder of Grassroots Media Inc., a project aimed at enabling grassroots journalism and expanding its reach. The company's first launch isBayosphere.com, a site ‘of, by and for the Bay Area.’ Gillmor is is author ofWe the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People (O'Reilly Media, 2004), a book that explains the rise of citizens' media and why it matters. From 1994-2004, Gillmor 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. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Vermont, Gillmor received a Herbert Davenport fellowship in 1982 for economics and business reporting at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. During the 1986-87 academic year he was ajournalism fellow at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he studied history, political theory and economics. He has won or shared in several regional and national journalism awards. Before becoming a journalist he played music professionally for seven years."

• ISBN: 978-0-596-80626-2
• Editorial: O'Reilly
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 180
• Fecha Publicación: 30/04/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés