Bill Densmore

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I'm a career journalist, publisher, entrepreneur and part-time academic. I'm director/editor of the Media Giraffe Project at the Univ. of Massachusetts-Amherst and also teach journalism courses at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. The MGP, launched in March, 2005, finds and spotlights individuals making sustainable, innovative use of media (old and new) to foster participatory democracy and community. A career journalist, I've been an editor/writer for The Associated Press, for trade publications in business, law and insurance; and freelanced for general circulation dailies including the Boston Globe. I've written for ComputerWorld Magazine. In 1993, after nine years owning and publishing weeklies in Berkshire County, Mass., I formed what became Clickshare Service Corp., which provides user registration, authentication and transaction-handling for Internet web content sites. I was advertising director for a small, group-owned daily; and interim director of the not-for-profit Hancock Shaker Village. Densmore Associates develops partner and other business strategies for independent media and print publishers, including newspapers and NewsTrusta initiative to create a consumer news-recommendation service. At the start of my career, I worked in public radio in Worcester, Mass., and Amherst, Mass.