Archive for January, 2010

Entrepreneurial journalism on the air

Posted on 17. Jan, 2010 by .

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On this week’s On the Media, Bob Garfield interviews me about CUNY’s entrepreneurial journalism program and the idea of teaching journalism students business. See our conference (call) with J-schools around the world that are starting to teach entrepreneurial journalism. We also discussed the New Business Models for News Project. (Note that our entrepreneurial journalism course […]

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John Paton on newspapers' future

Posted on 11. Jan, 2010 by .

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Two newspaper companies hired new chiefs last week. The Star Tribune hired Michael Klingensmith, my former colleague at Entertainment Weekly, and Journal Register hired John Paton, now head of Spanish-language publisher impreMedia and a newspaperman with roots in Canada. The latter didn’t get the attention it deserved. Paton has executed a strategic vision at impreMedia, […]

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The state of the art of news

Posted on 11. Jan, 2010 by .

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My response to the Project for Excellence in Journalism’s study that found most original reporting in Baltimore still comes from major media: No shit. We need a study to determine this? Well, maybe we do. I think it is worthwhile to have a baseline to compare where news goes in years to come. When I […]

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Teaching entrepreneurial journalism

Posted on 11. Jan, 2010 by .

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On Friday, we at CUNY had the honor of playing host to a conference (call) for more than two dozen educators around the world — New York to Arizona to Berkeley to Guadalajara to London to Oslo — who are teaching or starting to teach entrepreneurial journalism. Here’s the wiki where we will continue to […]

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