Mercury News: Does God Have a Facebook Page?

By Mike Cas­sidy Mer­cury News Are you there God? It’s me, twitter.com/mikecassidy. Maybe it’s no sur­prise that we’ve reached the point where, rather than look­ing to the heav­ens to find God, we’re look­ing to the cloud. It’s where we live now, with iPods, iPads, Android giz­mos, social net­works. The town square, com­plete with steepled church, has […]

Maynard Institute offers multimedia fellowships

Editor’s note: We have plenty of mem­bers of the Dis­placed Jour­nal­ists com­mu­nity who work at news oper­a­tions (online or print) and  fear they won’t keep their jobs unless they  boost their dig­i­tal and mul­ti­me­dia skills. This May­nard Insti­tute month-long fel­low­ship is  a great oppor­tu­nity to get that train­ing. — Susan Older Mul­ti­me­dia Edit­ing Fel­low­ships Available […]

Investigative journalism grant for independent journalists

Wash­ing­ton ( Feb­ru­ary 16, 2011) – The Fund for Inves­tiga­tive Jour­nal­ism is proud to announce con­tin­u­ing sup­port for its grant pro­gram for inde­pen­dent jour­nal­ists from the Ethics and Excel­lence in Jour­nal­ism Foun­da­tion, based in Okla­homa City. The Foun­da­tion has announced a grant for $75,000 that will give crit­i­cal assis­tance to reporters who have the ideas, sources, […]

Two Weeks to Startup: Day 5, Find Financing

We join Entrepreneur.com’s “Two Weeks to Startup” series on Day 5. Click on the links below to read the first four sto­ries, and fol­low the rest of the series on Entrepreneur.com. After repeated attempts at squeez­ing your square self into a round hole, you may be finally admit­ting it isn’t going to work — you’re […]

CUNY’s Jeremy Caplan chats with media entrepreneur Elizabeth Spiers

Jeremy Caplan inter­views on video media entre­pre­neur Eliz­a­beth Spiers.

HuffPo’s Achilles heel: Search engine optimization won’t work forever

By Farhad Man­joo Slate.com Are you won­der­ing, “will AOL’s acqui­si­tion of the Huff­in­g­ton Post be suc­cess­ful?” I bet you are, as that’s been a com­mon search engine query since the announce­ment ear­lier this week that AOL will buy the Huff­in­g­ton Post. Other ways you might phrase the ques­tion include, “AOL Huff­in­g­ton Post will work?” or […]

Face-to-face networking for entrepreneurs

Quick Pitch: Let­sLunch is a new net­work­ing ser­vice that intro­duces you to the movers and shak­ers of Sil­i­con Val­ley. Genius Idea: Social climb­ing is an art form often per­fected over the busi­ness lunch. For entre­pre­neurs, these lunches could help them net­work their way to cru­cial indus­try part­ner­ships or fund­ing deals. Newly launched startup Let­sLunch facil­i­tates these […]

Pitch your new venture idea to We Media for a shot at $25,000 in launch funding

We Media is accept­ing pitches for new ven­tures through Fri­day, Feb. 11. Here’s how it works: You sub­mit your ideas. They dis­cuss and vote. The best ideas bub­ble to the top. The top two new ven­tures each get $25,000 to launch them­selves. We Media is look­ing for “bold ideas for new busi­nesses that use media, com­mu­ni­ca­tion and […]

Rupert Murdoch’s Daily: Who needs paper?

EIGHT years ago Apple launched iTunes, a dig­i­tal store sell­ing music sin­gles for 99 cents apiece. For record com­pa­nies rav­aged by piracy, it seemed like a good deal. Only later did many come to regret allow­ing another com­pany to set retail prices and to get between them and their cus­tomers. On Feb­ru­ary 2nd Apple and […]

Inc.com: How to write a business plan

By Eliz­a­beth Wasser­man Inc.com A great busi­ness plan is a liv­ing, breath­ing blue­print for your busi­ness that can help you nav­i­gate and man­age your com­pany while also help­ing poten­tial investors, part­ners, lenders, and oth­ers under­stand your busi­ness strat­egy and your chances at suc­cess. A busi­ness plan is never quite fin­ished because you’re always revis­ing it, reviewing […]

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        Is there life – or work – after news­pa­pers? A lot of us are in the process of find­ing out. Because it’s gen­er­ally a some­what lonely endeavor, it struck me, in Jan­u­ary 2010, that it might be com­fort­ing – and pos­si­bly very pro­duc­tive – to go through it together.

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