Broadcast radio program with hosts Jim Hedger and Dave Davies. Appeared with Lise Broer (Durova) to discuss my Brooklyn Rail article
"The subjects of his interviews have ranged from the President of Israel and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Shimon Peres, to the owners of an S&M dungeon. He has also worked with a wide range of authors, photographing the like of Jonathan Safran Foer and Mary Gaitskill, and interviewing Augusten Burroughs, Edmund White, and many others...."
"The man who offed Santa seemed quite unrepentant after landing in Israel last week. David Shankbone, a leading editor for the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, came here at the invitation of the Foreign Ministry, which sought to give the 33-year-old rationalist a first-hand understanding of the country...."
"Wikinews has reached a milestone in its development.The citizen journalism news site received an invitation, along with more mainstream reporters, to meet with Israeli leaders, and its reporter was the first staffer to interview a head of state."
"For over an hour, Peres sat with one of the Wikipedia senior editors, David Shankbone. Shankbone, who came to Israel with a delegation of journalists, turned to the Israeli Consul for Media and Public Affairs in New York, David Saranga, and asked to schedule an interview with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and President Peres."
"In an acknowledgement of the importance that the Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia has in shaping opinion, the Foreign Ministry is bringing one of its leading editors, David Shankbone, to Israel next week."