We the Media

A new breed of grassroots journalists are taking the news into their own hands. Armed with laptops, mobile phones, and digital cameras, these readers-turned-reporters are transforming the news from a lecture by Big Media into a conversation among people who have enough knowledge and interest to post their observations online. We the Media tells the story of this emerging phenomenon, and sheds light on this deep shift in how we make and consume the news. As much of what veteran journalist Dan Gillmor wrote in the original hardbound edition has come to pass, this new paperback version includes an updated introduction and epilogue. While the introduction brings readers up-to-date on the seismic shifts that continue to reverberate through Big Media, the epilogue looks forward across the continually changing landscape and plots a path across it.

Dan Gillmor is founder of Grassroots Media Inc., a project aimed at enabling grassroots journalism and expanding its reach. The company's first launch is Bayosphere.com, a site "of, by and for the Bay Area." Gillmor is is author of We 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 a journalism 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.

Introduction to the Paperback Edition

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Introduction

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1. From Tom Paine to Blogs and Beyond

1

(22)

2. The Read-Write Web

23

(21)

3. The Gates Come Down

44

(22)

4. Newsmakers Turn the Tables

66

(22)

5. The Consent of the Governed

88

(22)

6. Professional Journalists Join the Conversation

110

(26)

7. The Former Audience Joins the Party

136

(22)

8. Next Steps

158

(16)

9. Trolls, Spin, and the Boundaries of Trust

174

(17)

10. Here Come the Judges (and Lawyers)

191

(18)

11. The Empires Strike Back

209

(27)

12. Making Our Own News

236

(7)

Epilogue and Acknowledgments

243

(10)

Web Site Directory

253

(8)

Glossary

261

(2)

Notes

263

Index z

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