News Leadership 3.0

February 08, 2010

Entrepreneurship 101: Setting priorities

Are you an entrepreneur with limited resources? So is Julia Scott. Scott don’t have a lot of dollars to invest in her everyday finance blog BargainBabe.com, but she does have time to spend. Given these assets, one of her biggest challenges is prioritizing the site’s growth. How often to you find yourself in the same boat? In a guest post, Scott explores the options.

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OJR: The Online Journalism Review

February 05, 2010

Writing skill is no longer enough to sustain journalists

By Robert Niles: What's the value of journalism?

The short answer is, of course, "whatever someone will pay for it." But a more thoughtful response gets at why people are willing to exchange something of value for news information.

Economics 101 teaches that if more people want something, and the scarcer it is, the higher the price. With millions of

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February 01, 2010

Knight Community Information Challenge opens for applications

If you’ve got an idea for a community news and information project and a local foundation as a partner, take a look at the Knight Foundation‘s information challenge. Read more.

January 31, 2010

Why Newsday’s pay wall makes sense for them, but probably won’t for you

Newsday has signed up only 35 subscribers since it put up a pay wall late last year. Mark Potts explains why that may be OK. Read more.

Upcoming workshops at KDMC@USC Annenberg

Leadership and Professional Growth for Digital Journalists

May 16 - May 21, 2010

News Entrepreneur Boot Camp 2010

Twenty digital entrepreneurs will get intense instruction, coaching and mentoring on developing marketable business plans.

July 1 - December 31, 2010

Transformative Leadership Institute

KDMC@USC will provide tailored, expenses-paid professional development services to 20 top newsroom leaders—help us find them!

Upcoming workshops at KDMC@UC Berkeley

Multimedia Story Telling and Technology Training

February 22 - February 26, 2010

Web 2.0 Training

Hands-on, newsroom-focused training on innovative publishing tools and technologies.

March 21 - March 26, 2010

Web Publishing Skills for Independent Journalists

KDMC Digital Partners

News University

Knight Citizen News Network

FEATURED SEMINAR

News Entrepreneur Boot Camp

imageTraditional news organizations are floundering as business models collapse and audiences are increasingly turning to alternative news and information sources. This special boot camp was designed for digital journalists passionate about new ideas for serving the information and news needs of their communities but who lack the grounding in business and startup skills.

imageDon't miss the Snap Shot Interviews put together by speakers and fellows who attended the event, talking about the experience of being news entrepreneurs.

Twitter Roll Call

February 08, 10:47pm

@jayrosen_nyu

@jny2 j@scottros @megangarber @Chanders And do we all get the "Lemme interview you for 45 minutes and pick out 13 words-- accurately" thing?

February 08, 9:33pm

@SusanMernit

susanmernit: Oaklanders Begin Cultivating the Other Medicinal Herb | NBC Bay Area http://bit.ly/duzmnp

February 08, 3:07pm

@knightfdn

How a simple SMS (as part of @Ushahidi's Project 4636) is transformed into a powerful resource for response & recovery http://bit.ly/9LNxyx

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