Reflections of a Newsosaur: Why the Daily will succeed – or not

By Alan D. Mut­ter Reflec­tions of a New­sosaur Mon­day, Jan. 31 2011 The Daily, which is set to launch this week, could be a cap­ti­vat­ing hit, a spec­tac­u­lar miss or some­thing in between. But one thing is sure: Rupert Mur­doch, the last swash­buck­ling pub­lisher of our time, will shake up the media world on Wednes­day when he […]

KDMC extends application deadline for workshop: Web Publishing for Independent Journalists

The Knight Dig­i­tal Media Cen­ter (KDMC) at UC Berke­ley has extended the dead­line for the Web Pub­lish­ing for Inde­pen­dent Jour­nal­ists Work­shop to Tues­day, Feb.1 at 11:59 p.m. PST. The work­shop will be held March 20–25, 2011 at the UC Berke­ley Grad­u­ate School for Jour­nal­ism. The career path for many of today’s jour­nal­ists is merg­ing with entrepreneurship. […]

Seeking foundation support for your news start up? Three tips for news entrepreneurs

By Michele McLel­lan, News Lead­er­ship 3.0 Knight Dig­i­tal Media Cen­ter Jan­u­ary 25, 2011 As tra­di­tional news orga­ni­za­tions do less, local foun­da­tions are becom­ing more will­ing to make grants in sup­port of news and infor­ma­tion projects. Still, their resources are not lim­it­less and I often run into jour­nal­ist entre­pre­neurs who have highly unre­al­is­tic ideas about what might […]

KDMC workshop: Web publishing for independent journalists

The Knight Dig­i­tal Media Cen­ter UC-Berkeley Grad­u­ate School of Jour­nal­ism The career path for many of today’s jour­nal­ists is merg­ing with entre­pre­neur­ship. Jour­nal­ists who once cov­ered top­i­cal, fea­ture and inves­tiga­tive news for estab­lished news­pa­pers are becom­ing inde­pen­dent pub­lish­ers of spe­cialty blogs and hyper­local com­mu­nity news sites. These sites ful­fill an impor­tant role in the emerging […]

“Fear and Loathing” in the American Workplace

Author’s note: I wrote this a lit­tle more than a year ago, but it just occurred to me that I never shared it with the Dis­placed Jour­nal­ists com­mu­nity. That’s largely because I had not cre­ated the Dis­placed Jour­nal­ists web­site and Face­book page at the time. I think it’s still rel­e­vant today. It is on my […]

Pew study says Internet users more social, civically engaged

By Audrey Wat­ters Read­WriteWeb Jan­u­ary 18, 2011 That old stereo­type that Inter­net users are iso­lated and anti-social is get­ting harder and harder to jus­tify. In fact, the lat­est study from the Pew Inter­net and Amer­i­can Life Project, aptly titled “The Social Side of the Inter­net,” chal­lenges this notion even fur­ther, find­ing that Inter­net users are actually […]

Deadline: KDMC News Entrepreneur Boot Camp

Jan. 14, is the dead­line for appli­ca­tions to attend The Knight Dig­i­tal Media Cen­ter (in part­ner­ship with the USC Greif Cen­ter for Entre­pre­neur­ial Stud­ies, and the Online Jour­nal­ism Review) News Entre­pre­neur Boot Camp to be held May 15–20, 2011, at the Annen­berg School for Com­mu­ni­ca­tion & Jour­nal­ism, in Los Ange­les, CA. This intense one-week boot […]

Pixar Lore: The Day Our Bosses Saved Our Jobs

By Bob Sut­ton Har­vard Busi­ness Review Jan. 10, 2011 Pixar is one of my favorite com­pa­nies on the planet. I love its films, its cre­ative and con­struc­tive peo­ple (The Incred­i­bles direc­tor Brad Bird is among the most intrigu­ing peo­ple I’ve ever inter­viewed), and its relent­less drive toward excel­lence. There’s a pride that per­me­ates that place, along […]

Social commerce is the next big thing

Social Com­merce Today Posted on Jan­u­ary 6, 2011 by Paul Mars­den So next month’s (Feb 2011) Wired mag­a­zine (UK edi­tion) has just dropped, with a cover story on social com­merce, by edi­tor David Rowan and edi­to­r­ial assis­tant Tom Cheshire. The cover text– “What are you sell­ing? Big Brands want to cash in on your Facebook […]

The Economist: Britain’s embattled newspapers are leading the world in innovation

The Econ­o­mist Jan. 6, 2011 By most con­ven­tional mea­sures, Britain’s news­pa­pers look doomed. Young read­ers are aban­don­ing them for the inter­net and tele­vi­sion. The Daily Express and the Daily Mir­ror, both tabloids, have shed about two-thirds of their cir­cu­la­tion since the mid-1980s. Yet Evgeny Lebe­dev, co-owner of the Inde­pen­dent and the Evening Stan­dard, is opti­mistic. “People […]

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