Legacy e-News, Building A World Where Young People Reject Tobacco And Anyone Can QuitOctober 2007
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TobaccoWiki Editor Anne Landman Introduces New Site

The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) introduced Tobaccowiki.org, an innovative and collaborative online tobacco document research project, in an open forum at the American Legacy Foundation® office in Washington, DC. Begun in Fall 2006 and funded in part by Legacy, TobaccoWiki compiles useful, dynamic information on past and present tobacco industry activities and makes it accessible in an easy-to-navigate, user-friendly "wiki" format. TobaccoWiki is the newest addition to CMD's project SourceWatch, a dynamic online resource examining the people, organizations and issues shaping the public agenda. The Web site builds on the already established Legacy Tobacco Documents Library.

TobaccoWiki Editor Anne Landman described and demonstrated how the new site provides a platform from which the general public, the tobacco control community, grassroots activists, mainstream, alternative and citizen journalists, professional researchers, smokers and high school and college students can easily gain access to tobacco document research and contribute their own findings to TobaccoWiki's growing and diverse archive of resources. The program began with a briefing from Landman, followed by a comprehensive question and answer period, and ended with a demonstration of the site.

The CMD, based in Madison, WI, is a non-profit, non-partisan, public interest organization that serves journalists, researchers, policymakers and citizens at large in strengthening participatory democracy by promoting media literacy and citizen journalism.

To view TobaccoWiki, visit www.tobaccowiki.org. For assistance on navigating the site, contact Anne Landman at Anne@sourcewatch.org.