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Amy Gahran

Amy Gahran

Amy Gahran is a journalist, editor, trainer, entrepreneur, strategist, and media consultant based in Boulder, Colorado. In addition to writing articles and doing educational programming for [email protected], she also covers mobile technology for CNN.com and Entrepreneur.com, and was a cofounder of the hyperlocal news site OaklandLocal.com. In 2006 she won a Knight News Challenge awarded for the Boulder Carbon Tax Tracker project. Her blog is Contentious.com. Twitter: @agahran

Amy Gahran's Blogs and Trainings

Civic user testing: How to make open government more engaging, effective

It wasn't by accident that access the Smart Chicago Collaborative was able to make access to open government data easy, Read More

How some Knight News Challenge winners adapted to local obstacles

Every year since 2006, the Knight News Challenge has been investing in people who are testing new ideas for engaging citizens with Read More

Political engagement is tricky in social media, says Pew

The U.S. midterm election season is upon us. Midterm races typically focus more on state and local offices and issues, Read More