Dan Gillmor, an acclaimed journalist, author and professor, will talk about the importance of being an educated media consumer at the sixth annual Holden Journalism Lecture at the University of Colorado at Boulder at 5 p.m. Monday, Nov. 2, in Hale Science Building room 270.
"We are in a media-saturated age, more so all the time, and we need to find ways to use media to our -- and our society's -- best advantage," Gillmor said. "The day when we could be passive consumers is over, or should be."
The lecture is sponsored by the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at CU-Boulder and is free and open to the public.
Gillmor spent 11 years as a columnist for the San Jose Mercury News and is credited with being the first journalist at a traditional media company to create a blog. For Gillmor, the blog was just an extension of his column.
"I was already having a conversation with readers via e-mail, and the blog became another way to expand the conversation," he said.
Gillmor is now director of the Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. He also is ASU's Kauffman Professor of digital media entrepreneurship and a director of the Center for Citizen Media, a joint project between ASU and Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. His book, "We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People," was published in 2004.
For more information about Gillmor's lecture, visit the CU-Boulder School of Journalism and Mass Communication's Web site at or call 303-492-4364.