The Center for Future Civic Media at MIT is delighted to announce that Ellen Hume will be joining us as Research Director. Ellen is currently the founding director of the Center on Media and Society at the University of Massachusetts Boston, where she created the New England Ethnic Newswire. Previously, she served as executive director and senior fellow at Harvard University’s Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, and as executive director of PBS’s Democracy Project. Ellen was White House and political correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, national reporter with the Los Angeles Times, and regular commentator on PBS’s Washington Week in Review and CNN’s Reliable Sources.
The Center for Future Civic Media, founded earlier this year with a major grant from the Knight Foundation, develops new techniques and technologies to enhance civic engagement and strengthen social bonds in local communities, providing people with new means to share, prioritize, organize and act on information relevant to their communities. For further information, see here.
