Presentation on Dan Gillmor

1. WHO IS DAN GILLMOR?
By Dolvani & Sage

2. DAN GILLMOR
 Dan Gillmor is an American technology writer and columnist.
 Dan Gillmor is the director of the Knight Center for Digital
Media Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University’s Walter
Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication and a
fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard
University. He is also known for his popular weblog covering
technology news and the Northern California technology
business sector, criticizing rigid enforcement of copyrights and
commenting on politics from a liberal perspective

3. BUT WHAT DOES HE HAVE TO DO WITH
“WE MEDIA?”
 Dan Gillmor made an article on “We Media” talking about how technology
has changed the society of journalists. Dan said “the lives of current and
upcoming journalists have changed because of the internet. It has allowed
the public to record tragic and non-tragic events and post them online on
social media websites such as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram or even
upload it onto YouTube”. Dan Gillmor said that “We Media has helped our
society by giving people a voice which they did not have back when people
news reporters provided them with information but now people have their
own news and record it for themselves”.

4. OKAY, BUT WHAT WERE HIS VIEWS ON
“WE MEDIA?”
 Dan Gilmore suggested that we as humans freeze some moments in time. Every culture has
its frozen moments, events which are so important and personal that they transcend the
normal flow of news.
 Dan Gilmore also believed that we as humans had more control over how media was
distributed with the introduction of the internet then before its introduction. He believed we
will learn that we are part of something new, that readers/listeners/viewers are becoming
part of the process. He also said that we take it for granted, for example his readers know
more than he does and he described this as a liberating, not threatening, fact of
journalistic life. Essentially suggesting that every reporter on every beat should embrace
this.

5. THINK ABOUT THIS FOR A SEC
 Dan Gilmore also thought that we as journalists of media will use
the tools of grassroots journalism or be consigned to history. Our
core values, including accuracy and fairness, will remain
important, and we’ll still be gatekeepers in some ways, but our
ability to shape larger conversations and to provide context will
be at least as important as our ability to gather facts and report
them accordingly.