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Dan Sinker is an American author, publisher, and entrepreneur. He currently serves as the inaugural fellow of the Center for Journalism Integrity & Excellence (CJIE), is co-host of the Says Who? podcast, and speaks on the state of journalism, the rise of fake news, and how to fix it.
Dan Sinker is an American author, publisher, and entrepreneur. He currently serves as the inaugural fellow of the Center for Journalism Integrity & Excellence (CJIE), is co-host of the Says Who? podcast, and speaks on the state of journalism, the rise of fake news, and how to fix it.
Early life and education
Sinker was born in London, raised inEvanston, Illinois
Evanston ( ) is a city, suburb of Chicago. Located in Cook County, Illinois, United States, it is situated on the North Shore along Lake Michigan. Evanston is north of Downtown Chicago, bordered by Chicago to the south, Skokie to the west, Wil ...
and attended Evanston Township High School
Evanston Township High School (ETHS) District 202, is a four-year public high school occupying a campus in Evanston, Illinois, a north suburb of Chicago along the Lake Michigan shore. ETHS was established in 1883 and serves the city of Evanston ...
.
Career
In 1994, at the age of 19, Sinker foundedPunk Planet
''Punk Planet'' was a 16,000 print run punk zine, based in Chicago, Illinois, that focused most of its energy on looking at punk subculture rather than punk as simply another genre of music to which teenagers listen. In addition to covering music ...
, an independent music, politics and culture magazine that helped to document the independent music and art scenes of the 1990s and 2000s.
From 2004 to 2011, Sinker was an assistant professor in the Journalism Department at Columbia College. In 2008, Sinker was a John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford.
In 2010 and 2011, Sinker was the author of the @MayorEmanuel Twitter account. a parody account that Atlantic Magazine said, "pushed the boundaries of the medium, making Twitter feel less like a humble platform for updating your status and more like a place where literature could happen."
In 2011, he led the Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership of the Mozilla Foundation, which was spun out as Open News in 2017.
Since 2018, he has been an independent author, consultant, and entrepreneur, writing for Esquire Magazine, and creating products like the Pee Tape and Robert Mueller III Prayer Candles.
Books
Sinker is the author of and contributor to a number of books. * We Owe You Nothing, Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews, 2001 * We Owe You Nothing: Expanded Edition: Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews (Punk Planet Books), 2007 * The F***ing Epic Twitter Quest of @MayorEmanuel, Scribner, 2011 * How I Resist (contributor), 2018 * Arte Agora: Art made, sold, or placed in the public way (foreword)References