news year: 2005

Dan Gillmor’s Move from Mainstream to Grassroots Journalism

In his final, farewell column in the San Jose Mercury News, the respected technology journalist Dan Gillmor said Silicon Valley’s “willingness — no, eagerness — to take risks has always been the valley’s most special quality.” Silicon Valley’s culture of risk-taking has undoubtedly rubbed off on Gillmor during the 10 or so years he has …  Read More

Symposium Will Discuss Issues Facing Online Journalism

The University of Texas School of Journalism will be hosting the Sixth International Symposium on Online Journalism Friday, April 8 and Saturday, April 9 to discuss issues that face multimedia and online journalism today. Rosental Alves, a professor at UT Austin and the director of the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, is running the …  Read More