Jtm-dc-Russell Okamoto
From Media Giraffe
Russell Okamoto
Cofounder
Public Press http://www.publicpress.org
gauss@publicpress.org
Russell Okamoto, of Beaverton, Ore., is cofounder of a free, neighborhood news network called Public Press that enables any neighborhood/community to create their own hyperlocal, digital newspaper. He is a software engineer by trade. His expertise is building highly scalable data management systems that work across many computers. His hope is to apply technology and mathematics to the journalism trade and ultimately build tighter-knit, more informed communities.
