CUNY’s Jeremy Caplan chats with media entrepreneur Elizabeth Spiers

Jeremy Caplan interviews on video media entrepreneur Elizabeth Spiers.

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Digital Media Training at KDMC-Berkeley

The Knight Digital Media Center, which is associated the UC-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, has opened the application process for its next round of free week-long digital media workshops for working and independent journalists. The program teaches multimedia storytelling, including how to capture and edit video, photos and audio. There is a workshop on Web [...]

WRITERS LIFEGUARD: Mantrae of Our Times

Way back when — in April, 2009 — I called Writers Lifeguard No. 16, “Mantrae for Our Times.” It had but four markers of change: Screen is the new Paper Short is the new Deep Pictures are the new Words Free is the new Pay Now, more than a year further into our climb — [...]

CJR: Yahoo’s New Digital Media Stylebook

By Bill Grueskin August 12, 2010 11:11 a.m. The Yahoo Style Guide: The Ultimate Sourcebook for Writing, Editing, and Creating Content for the Digital World | St. Martin’s Griffin | 528 pages, $21.99 If you strolled by a copy editor’s desk at any metro newsroom thirty years ago, you would have likely seen, sandwiched between [...]

‘Nomad’ Digital Mag to Tap Mobile Market, Pay Freelancers Share of Subscription Revenue

A new publishing venture has launched which takes advantage of mobile devices. A group of magazine journalists and editors have formed to publish a weekly digital magazine, Nomad Editions, specifically for mobile technology. Content will be created by freelance journalists with area-specific expertise; readers, who will subscribe through a mobile app, can receive an “exclusive, [...]

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