Guys. We need more information on the founders of the game journo pro list. It seems there was a precursor list called "international game journalists association" which has been removed from the internet mostly. Please look into who was involved. Orland Jr wrote a video game journalism writing guide with a guy named Scott Steinberg. Who is Steinberg? He has testimonials by Richard Branson on his website. We need to know more.
List of GJP members (check for ed tech connections)
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2014/09/21/gamejournopros-we-reveal-every-journalist-on-the-list/The founder of the IGJA, which Scott was a member of, (David Thomas) is the admin of
http://buzzcut.com/But more interesting is his bio on
http://bhimpact.gamespress.com/release.asp?i=137after the 2007 review of the IGJA's book " The Videogame Style Guide and Reference Manual"
"David Thomas is a 20-year newspaper veteran and educator specializing in arts and technology criticism. For the past decade, he’s covered games for The Denver Post. The founder of the IGJA, his gaming column is syndicated through King Features. He also teaches the history of digital media, critical videogame theory and other gaming/media-related classes for the University of Colorado."
>For the past decade, he’s covered games for The Denver Post.>He also teaches the history of digital media, critical videogame theory and other gaming/media-related classes for the University of Colorado.>critical videogame theory>critical (videogame) theoryhttp://shushgame.blogspot.com/2007/09/digra-2007-tokyo.htmlDigra and igja
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http://www.peeep.us/f12804c2Mia Consalvo of Digra and David Thomas of igja at GDC together
http://www.peeep.us/498077e9Consalvo is also thanked in the acknowledgements of Thomas's style guide
Link to PDF
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&ei=GsieVKabFYKxggTAi4SIAQ&url=http://www.gamestyleguide.com/VideoGameStyleGuideeBook.pdf&ved=0CB8QFjAA&usg=AFQjCNEgIu9D_5Ba2lqmNhPyFJISsS13iQ