Dan Gillmor Leaving Merc
Whoa! Dan Gillmor, blogger extraordinaire, author and long-time business columnist for the San Jose Mercury News is leaving the paper to pursue a venture-backed grassroots journalism project.
SJMN colleagues Mike Bazeley and Matt Marshall shed more insight via SiliconBeat:
Dan will be starting a grass-roots journalism venture, and says he has gotten seed funding. The plan is typical Gillmor. It reflects his appreciation of the need for news to bubble up from the masses. It also allows him to partake of the dream that he has written so much about: The entrepreneur starting something interesting. "I’m jumping off a cliff with the expectation of assembling a hand-glider before I get to the bottom," he told us this evening, in a phone call from Boston, where he is attending a conference at Harvard. "I figured the worst risk is that I’d be out of work in six months."
I’ll have to grok this because it has all sorts of interesting implications for the changing media landscape, however, in the meantime I’ll simply wish Dan the best of luck in his new endeavor.
Update: Dan blogs about his transition.
