Bill Densmore

Bill Densmore is a co-founder of CircLabs Inc., developer of CirculateTM, the news social network. CirculateTM helps consumers discover customized news, manage their privacy, enjoy relevant advertising and share value with publishers via a most-trusted information home base. CirculateTM emerged from the Information Valet Project, a 2008-2009 Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute initiative Mr. Densmore led at the Missouri School of Journalism. Mr. Densmore also founded and directs the Media Giraffe Project at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and the New England News Forum. A career journalist, he has been an editor/writer for The Associated Press, for trade publications in business, law and insurance; and freelanced for general circulation dailies including the Boston Globe. In 1993, after nine years owning and publishing weeklies in Berkshire County, Mass., he formed what became Clickshare Service Corp., which provides user registration, authentication and transaction-handling for Internet content. He has also served as advertising director for a small, group-owned daily and as an interim director of the not-for-profit Hancock Shaker Village. He has taught and lectured in journalism at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in North Adams, Mass., and was a director of the Action Coalition for Media Education. He is a director of the New England Newspaper and Press Association and the Media Bloggers Association. He holds a bachelor's degree in environmental policy and communications from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.