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Lisa Williams

Lisa Williams

Founder & CEO

Lisa Williams is the Director of Digital Engagement for the Investigative News Network. She is also CEO and founder of Placeblogger.com, the world's largest searchable index of local weblogs. Placeblogger was a winner of the Knight 21st Century News Challenge, which gives out $5 million dollars annually to innovators with projects that aim to define the future of journalism. Lisa is also a fellow at the MIT Media Lab's Center for Future Civic Media, which is one of the most well-known university-based technology and innovation centers in the world. The newly formed Center for Future Civic Media focuses on meeting the information needs of humanity over the next 100 years. Prior to founding Placeblogger, Lisa founded H2Otown, an online community and news site by and for the residents of her hometown of Watertown, Mass. H2Otown became a nationally recognized model for citizen journalism. Lisa has also worked with the Boston Globe, the Center for Citizen Media, and countless startups and media organizations. She graduated from Emerson College in 1992. [email protected]

Lisa Williams's Blogs and Trainings

Building a new J-school? Build the newsroom first

What would you do if you could build a brand-new journalism school from scratch? Monclair State in New Jersey is Read More

Reduce, reuse, recycle: Civic apps start to spread

How can we tell if open data and civic hacking really work -- or if they're just a distraction?   Read More

ConnectOC: Connecting Orange County's haves and have-nots with public data

ConnectOC challenges Orange County's vision of itself as a place of prosperity with the stark facts about homelessness, hunger, education, Read More