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Ninth in a series on entrepreneurial journalism programs at universities and media organizations. Mark Briggs, the man who wrote the book about entrepreneurial journalism, believes that universities are among the best places to experiment with new business models for news. Universities embrace experimentation and risk-taking, he says. “Those are two traits that are not very inherent […]
Read More »Apollo 13 engineers celebrate safe splashdown.NASA photo, April 1970. NBC News via AP Versión en español aquí. Journalists who are starting their own digital media should learn to think more like engineers and scientists. For them, solving a problem involves repeated trial and error. They view each step not as a failure but as a […]
Read More »Newton (Knight Foundation photo) (Versión en español aquí.) University journalism programs are not changing fast enough to meet the needs of students entering an industry in which job opportunities lie in ventures that are entrepreneurial and multimedia, say experts writing a series of articles for Nieman Lab. One of the commentators is Eric Newton, who says […]
Read More »This weekend I spent a day and a half participating online in NewsU’s Revenue Camp for Journalism Entrepreneurs, an intense session on some of the new ways journalists are making money on the Web. (The entire course will be available to view online in a few days; find Twitter comment at #revcamp.) One of the […]
Read More »Tina Seelig, venturebeat.com Versión en español aquí. I just finished taking the free online course on innovation offered at NewsU and thought the beleaguered folks working at newspapers could certainly benefit. So could digital news entrepreneurs. The course offers simple, useful techniques to encourage innovation in any newsroom. The main takeaways: Innovation is a discipline […]
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