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Articles by C.W. Anderson

C.W. Anderson is an assistant professor in the Department of Media Culture at the College of Staten Island (CUNY). He’s also a lead researcher at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (where he received his Ph.D.) and a 2009-10 visiting fellow at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project. In spring 2010, he was named a Knight Media Policy Fellow at the New America Foundation. He has been a pioneer in the theory and practice of citizen journalism, guiding one of the earliest “DIY journalism” websites, the NYC Independent Media Center, from 2001-2008. You can usually find him somewhere in Brooklyn. Email: heychanders@gmail.com
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