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TEAM: Who is the Media Giraffe Project?
By MGP Staff
Feb 11, 2005, 3:27pm
The Media Giraffe Project is the collective idea of dozens of journalists, technologists, web-media practitioners and media reform activists.
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Principal investigator is Bill Densmore, a former daily, wire-service, trade and weekly writer, editor and publisher who also started an Internet user-management service and has experience in consulting and non-profit management.
The project is affiliated with the journalism program in the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, where additional staff and advisory help is available.
An Advisory Board is in formation to help identify and nominate media giraffes.