Mr Gillmor has been writing for the San Jose Mercury for 10 years and describes the job as 'one of the best gigs in journalism'. However, earlier this year he published his book 'We the media: grassroots journalism by the people, for the people' and is now planning his own citizen journalism project.
Writing on his blog, Mr Gillmor said: "I hope to pull together something useful that helps enable - and demonstrates - the emerging grassroots journalism that I wrote about in my recent book.
"Something powerful is happening, it's in the early stages and I have a chance to help figure this out."
Korean citizen journalism site OhMyNews interviewed Mr Gillmor about the move last weekend at the Internet and Society conference in Massachusetts.
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