Dan Gillmor

My life has been in media — music, newspapers, online, books, investing and education.

I’m director of the Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. The Center, funded by the Knight Foundation and Kauffman Foundation, is working to help create a culture of innovation and risk-taking in journalism education, and in the wider media world.

I also write articles, including columns at Salon.com on media and technology. In 2004 I published "We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People," a book that explained the rise of citizen media and why it matters. The book has been translated into a number of foreign languages, most recently Korean and Arabic. My new book is called Mediactive.