Citizen media collaborative targets comprehensive calendar

WILLIAMSTOWN -- In what was billed as a brainstorming session, citizens seeking to improve local news coverage and community information exchange targetted creation of an online database-driven events calendar as their first project and explored ideas about group collaboration and funding.  The 75-minute meeting held Wed., Aug. 2, at the Williamstown Public Library, drew 17 "citizen journalists" and was organized by a group of conveners that included a former chamber of commerce adminstrator, local newspaper reporter and onetime co-publisher of The [Williamstown] Advocate regional newsweekly, Bill Densmore. Densmore, who now heads the Media Giraffe Project at UMass Amherst, described the group as the Greylock Citizen/Media Collaborative (GCMC).

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