Bill heads the Media Giraffe Project and the New England News Forum at the Univ. of Massachusetts-Amherst, which supports innovative uses of media for participatory democracy. He was a 2008-2009 fellow at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute. Bill has reported for The Boston Globe and trade publications, was an editor at The Associated Press, and a publisher of community weeklies. He founded Clickshare, a patented social network service that allows consumers to control their own identity across multiple websites for personalization and purchasing.