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 little […]
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 […]
Point Reyes Light Strikes New Path with Hybrid Business Model
The Pulitzer-prize winning Point Reyes Light is now owned by the Point Reyes Light Publishing Co. L3C, a low-profit limited liability company, which is owned by Marin Media Institute, a nonprofit corporation that has applied for 501c3 status. From The Investigative Reporting Workshop, American University School of Communication They had a choice. They could watch […]
Reflections of a Newsosaur: Journalists Running Start-Ups Face Tall Odds
By Alan D. Mutter Posted Monday, June 7, 2010, on Reflections of a Newsosaur Fed up with furloughs and down-sizing – or forced involuntarily out of their jobs – journalists across the land are taking matters into their own hands by starting their own news sites. While I applaud these brave and commendable efforts, I fear […]
Jeff Israely: Lessons Learned in Year 1 of a Magazine Correspondent’s (Would-Be) Online News Startup
[Jeff Israely, a Time magazine foreign correspondent in Europe, is in the planning stages of a news startup — a “new global news website.” He details his experience as a new news entrepreneur at his site, but he’ll occasionally be describing the startup process here at the (Neiman Journalism) Lab. —Josh] I realized not long ago […]
Why Ex-Reporters Make Great Ghostwriters
By Ellen Neuborne Special to Displaced Journalists 5.6.2010 I used to be a reporter. Now I’m a ghostwriter. I get a lot of raised eyebrows when I say that. Usually, it’s followed by comments such as “Really? For anybody famous?” Or “Can you make a living at that?” No, nobody famous. Yes, you can make a […]
Displaced Journalist Replaces “The Rocky” with “Fit to Print” Life
M.E. Sprengelmeyer is “reporter/publisher” of The Guadalupe County Communicator, a 2,000-circulation weekly in the colorful Route 66 community of Santa Rosa, New Mexico. M.E., as he prefers to be called, was Washington correspondent for the Rocky Mountain News when the Denver-based newspaper published its final edition February 27, 2009. He was a displaced journalist, but not for long. The […]
Sad About My Layoff? Not Me, I’m “The Photo Garden Bee”
Like everyone, I’ve been holding my breath each time rumors regarding “downsizing,” “right-sizing,” “cutbacks” or “sacrifices to the stock market gods” started swirling around the newsroom. Unfortunately, more often than not, most of the rumors have been followed by real layoffs of really talented friends and co-workers. This past December 1st was no different. The […]
Travel Writers 2 Travel App-ers
By Jules Older So there we were. Jules: former magazine editor-in-chief, former website director, Global Interactive Content, former person with income. Effin: widely published phởtographer, suddenly not widely published. Hi. I’m Jules. Not long ago I start getting email asking if I’d like to cover San Francisco for a travel website. It will be, oh, two or three […]