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I, Reporter is a citizen journalism consulting and training project started in mid-2005 by former ABCNews.com senior producer A. Adam Glenn and Amy Gahran, editor of Poynter’s group weblog E-Media Tidbits. I, Reporter is currently preparing an online directory of citizen media sites for University of Maryland’s J-Lab and Harvard’s Center for Citizen Media. Glenn and Gahran have also presented workshops for journalist associations and guided the launch of a local newspaper web site in suburban New York. The two blog regularly on citJ efforts on www.IReporter.org.

Glenn is an internet news veteran now working as an independent online consultant. He specializes in business, health, science, technology and the environment, and has held posts with a wide variety of news media in New York and Washington, most recently at ABCNews.com in New York. Clients include NBC Universal Chairman Bob Wright, J-Lab at the University of Maryland, Columbia Journalism School, the Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation, and Rodale. Glenn is an active member of the Society of Environmental Journalists, where he serves on the editorial advisory board, and of the Online News Association. He helps organize programs for the annual conferences of each organization. Glenn was awarded a 2002 Ford Environmental Journalism Fellowship to teach in India, and a 2005 Environmental Media Fellowship at the Vermont Law School, and received training last year at the University of Colorado-Boulder, the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta and the National Institutes of Health in Washington, DC. He previously earned a mid-career Masters of International Affairs (environmental policy) at Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy in Boston. He currently lives in the New York area with his wife, who is an educator, and their three-year-old daughter.

Gahran is a conversational media consultant and content strategist based in Boulder, CO. Since 1997 she’s worked independently, managing content projects and helping individuals, media, and organizations participate in the public conversation. A former full-time journalist, editor, and managing editor, Gahran’s work mainly involves conversational online media (weblogs, forums, wikis, e-mail lists) as well as feeds, podcasting, and e-learning (including some courses on Poynter’s NewsU.org). Gahran also does freelance journalism, writing, editing, and coaching. She loves running workshops and seminars. Her clients include the Natl. Governor’s Assoc., Eastman Kodak, Zondervan, the United Nations Food & Agriculture Org., and the Natl. School Boards Assoc. She’s the editor of the weblogs Contentious.com and RightConversation.com. For more than 15 years she’s worked with the Soc. of Environmental Journalists in various capacities, including a stint on their board. Currently she’s a writer for SEJ’s biweekly Tipsheet publication.

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