J.D. Lasica

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J.D. Lasica is the pen name of Joseph Daniel Lasica, an online journalist and blogger. He is the author of Darknet: Hollywood's War Against the Digital Generation (ISBN 0-471-68334-5) (2005), a book about the copyright wars and the future of media.

In March 2005 he co-founded Ourmedia, a grassroots media community and learning center, and serves as its executive director and chairman of its board of directors. He is also president of the Social Media Group, a consulting firm that works with corporate clients. In February 2007 the Aspen Institute published his short-form book, The Mobile Generation: Global Transformations at the Cellular Level.

Lasica is also a leading citizen journalist, lecturing widely on the subject at such venues as the 2006 International Citizen Reporters' Forum in Seoul and serving on the board of directors of the Media Bloggers Association. He serves on the advisory boards of the Center for Citizen Media, NowPublic and the Society for New Communications Research, among others.

In 2003 he was editor of the whitepaper We Media: How audiences are shaping the future of news and information, published by the Media Center at the American Press Institute. Prior to that, Lasica was an editor for 11 years at the Sacramento Bee, a leading daily newspaper in California.

He was also the first new media columnist for the American Journalism Review magazine, the first regular columnist for the Online Journalism Review, and served as a senior editorial manager at three startups in Silicon Valley, including BabyCenter.com, iVendor and Microsoft's Sidewalk.com.