Technology journalist and author Dan Gillmor is leaving the San Jose Mercury News to work on an as yet unspecified citizen-journalism project. He announced the move in his blog yesterday, saying: "I hate the idea of leaving. But I'd hate not trying this even more."
As his Mercury News colleagues Matt Marshall and Mike Bazeley wrote on their own blog, Silicon Beat, resigning from the paper "allows [Dan] to partake of the dream that he has written so much about: the entrepreneur starting something interesting".
The good news is that Dan will continue to write his blog. The reams of comments from well-wishers at the foot of the post in which he announced his change of direction reflects the high regard in which he is held by bloggers and journalists alike: Newsblog wishes him well in his new venture. If you haven't read Dan's book, it was reviewed in the Guardian a while back, and Online interviewed him back in September.
