Dan Sinker

Daniel Sinker is the head of the Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership. A writer, educator, designer, and programmer, he is the author of the @MayorEmanuel Twitter feed, the founder and developer of the local election tracker ChicagoMayoralScorecard.com and the mobile storytelling project CellStories.net.

From 1994-2007, Sinker was the founder and Editor In Chief of the influential underground culture magazine Punk Planet, the editor of the book We Owe You Nothing: Punk Planet, the collected interviews, as well as the founder and editor of a line of fiercely independent books, Punk Planet Books, an imprint of Akashic Books.

Sinker was a 2007-08 John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University, where he studied the impact of mobile technologies on traditional publishing model. He received his BFA in video production and new media from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1996.

Sinker is is also a graphic designer whose design for Joe Meno's Hairstyles of the Damned was named one of the 25 "new classic" book covers of the last 25 years by Entertainment Weekly. He also occasionally blogs about media for the Huffington Post.

He lives in Chicago with his wife and son.