Dan Gillmor on His Move to "Citizen Journalism"

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday December 17, 2004 @01:05AM from the change-of-pace dept.

tct25 writes "Tech journalist Dan Gillmor gives OhmyNews International his first interview since announcing that he will leave the San Jose Mercury News next month in order to start a citizen-journalism venture. Many insiders are scratching their heads. Why is the much respected tech writer leaving what he described as 'greatest gig in the world' for the perilous journey of developing an entrepreneurial idea in citizen-journalism? He spoke to OhmyNews at Harvard Law School in the middle of the final day of the College's Berkman Center-sponsored 2004 Internet and Society Conference last Saturday."

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Re:I know why he would leave by krymsin01 · 2004-12-17 01:37 · Score: 1, Funny

I thought that was what Fox was for?

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/. = citizen journalism by Laurentiu · 2004-12-17 01:38 · Score: 1, Funny

I guess that makes him a (future) moderator?

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Re:Summary from the article for those who don't RT by Anonymous Coward · 2004-12-17 01:59 · Score: 0, Funny

Thanks for dumbing stuff down even more for us imbeciles who can't even be bothered reading the article.

Now we don't just get useless snippits of information which shorten our attention spans (100% of Slashdot stories), we get summaries of useless bits of information because we're too stupid or lazy to read it ourselves.

Yay for being st..OMG something shiny!

-tb