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It’s the hardest part of a manager’s job; ask questions rather than give solutions If you are leading a team in a small media organization, you need to get the best out of your people. Everyone has to be a contributor. This is not just a selfish thing. You get the best out of people […]
Read More »If you invest time and resources in their development, the payback is tenfold This is the fourth of a series about mentors —whether friends, family, coaches, guides, or teachers — and how we can be good mentors to others. With rapid change in the digital world, we need to be lifelong learners and teachers. Before […]
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The best ones demanded our best and left us with words to live by You’re reading the My News Biz newsletter. My goal is to help digital media entrepreneurs find viable business models. This is the second of a series about mentors — whether friends, family, coaches, guides, or teachers — and how we can […]
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Success is really the exception, but there are strategies to make it more likely Recently I read an enlightening book by Daniel Kahneman, a Nobel-prize-winning economist–Thinking, Fast and Slow. The book is filled with rigorous economic and psychological studies of how our instincts and reason mislead us, especially when we are dealing with statistics. His […]
Read More »Tenth in a series on teaching entrepreneurial journalism. Parts of this post are adapted from an article originally published in Revista Mexicana de Comunicación. Latin American journalists have a great thirst for establishing independent media. Many of them are tired of working for low pay at media outlets that protect the friends and punish the […]
Read More »Doug SmithExecutive DirectorPunch Sulzberger Program Sixth in a series on entrepreneurial journalism programs at universities and media organizations. Columbia Journalism School’s Punch Sulzberger Program differs from other programs in this series in several ways. Like them, it is entrepreneurial in focusing on innovation and transforming of a media enterprise. But the biggest difference is that it […]
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