Writer’s Lifeguard: eBooks, ‘Skiing the Edge,’ Cyber Monday and All That
Editor’s note: This Writer’s Lifeguard column should have been posted earlier, but I procrastinated. The columnist, Jules Older, still unrelated to me, makes an offer to give his eBook away free for Cyber Monday. I strongly believe he will extend that offer one more day. Why? A.) Jules in generous. B.) Jules is familiar with [...]
Poynter’s Digital Entrepreneurship Workshop: Building Your Online Business
Editor’s note: The Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Fla., is taking applications for its August workshop in entrepreneurial journalism. I attended this workshop last July. I learned a great deal about starting my own business and how to make the most of my skills and ideas in the digital news and information marketplace. I reworked [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Rooted Austin: Just Follow Your Passion
By Logan Braman Special for Displaced Journalists I’m a journalist, but I don’t consider myself displaced. If anything, I’d say I’m a journalist who has been set free. I, along with three co-founders, just launched the first part of Rooted Austin, a local news portal for Austin, Texas. We think it’s the best time to [...]
CJR: Blazing Trails, Changing Paths
By Curtis Brainard The News Frontier, The Observatory — August 03, 2010 12:48 p.m. When Investigate West, an investigative journalism site, sprung up last summer after the virtual collapse of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, we called its founders—former P-I staffers committed to finding a fresh models for the news business—the “new pioneers of the west.” Now, a [...]
Debunking 5 Myths of Entrepreneurial Journalism
By Jeremy Caplan, Poynter Online Entrepreneurial journalists spot the seeds of start-ups where others see remnants of the news industry’s retreat. Earlier this month, I worked with 19 forward-looking journos who convened at Poynter to get a jumpstart on their new micro-businesses. One narrowed the focus of her niche news site for Filipino Americans, while another refined his [...]
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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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